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Install docker-agent with Homebrew, winget

Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering. Version 1.101.0 via Homebrew; verified 2026-07-07.

Install commandSecurity notes

install

Additional install commands

macOS

Homebrewverified · 100%
brew install docker-agent

local Homebrew formula metadata

Windows

Windows Package Managerverified · 92%
winget install --id Docker.Agent -e

Windows Package Manager source index · Docker.Agent · source: cdn.winget.microsoft.com

overview

Package summary

Agent Builder and Runtime by Docker Engineering

Commands and aliases

  • docker-agent

history

Project history and usage

Docker Agent is Docker's open source CLI for defining, running, and sharing AI agents from YAML or HCL configuration. The upstream README describes it as a docker CLI plugin that can run as docker agent, with multi-agent orchestration, MCP toolsets, provider-agnostic model support, RAG, and OCI registry distribution.

Project history

Docker Agent is a recent Docker Engineering project that applies Docker packaging habits to AI-agent workflows: declarative configuration, a CLI entry point, reusable toolsets, and distribution through registries. Its docs position it explicitly as an agent runner rather than a hosted SaaS or code framework.

Adoption history

The README documents three adoption channels: preinstallation in Docker Desktop 4.63 and later, Homebrew installation, and binary releases from GitHub. That makes it unusual among early AI-agent CLIs because Docker is trying to make the agent runtime feel like another Docker workflow rather than a separate Python or Node stack.

How it is used

Users write an agent.yaml file with model, instructions, and toolsets, then run it with docker agent run or docker-agent directly. The docs and README highlight coding agents, operations and SRE tasks, multi-agent teams, filesystem and shell tools, MCP integrations, local models through Docker Model Runner, and pushing or pulling agents through OCI registries.

Why package nerds care

For package-manager users, Docker Agent is notable because it packages a fast-moving AI-agent runtime as a CLI plugin in the Docker ecosystem. Its significance is still emerging, but it is a clear example of AI tooling being distributed through the same channels as container developer tools.

Timeline

  • 2026: Upstream docs describe Docker Agent as a Docker tool for running AI agents from configuration.
  • 2026: The README documents Docker Desktop 4.63+ bundling, Homebrew installation, and GitHub binary releases.
  • 2026: The batch input lists Homebrew and winget package-manager entries.

Related projects

  • Docker Agent overlaps with Docker Model Runner, Docker's MCP catalog, general MCP servers, local-model runtimes, and AI coding-agent CLIs, but its official framing is Docker-native agent configuration and distribution.

security posture

Risk level: yellow

generalized runtime or code generation signal.

Risk classifier

yellow risk · medium confidence · runtime

Why

  • generalized runtime or code generation signal

Signals

  • text:runtime

Install behavior

  • No Homebrew post-install hook is recorded in formula metadata.
  • Homebrew bottle metadata is available for 6 platform targets.
  • Build metadata lists 1 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix
./agent.yaml

executables

Installed executables

CommandKindExposureNote
docker-agentcliglobal executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-08
manager version1.101.0
manager updated2026-07-07
local dataok
upstreamcurrent
latest detectedv1.101.0

https://github.com/docker/docker-agent

  • okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package keybrew:docker-agent
Version1.101.0
Package managerHomebrew
Package manager pagehttps://formulae.brew.sh/formula/docker-agent
Homepagehttps://docker.github.io/docker-agent/
Repositoryhttps://github.com/docker/docker-agent
Upstream docshttps://docker.github.io/docker-agent
LicenseApache-2.0
Source archivehttps://github.com/docker/docker-agent/archive/refs/tags/v1.101.0.tar.gz
Last updated2026-07-07T12:14:12Z
Pulseupdated
Build dependenciesgo
Bottleavailable (on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux)
Homebrew post-installnot defined
Servicenone declared

registry facts

Source database details

Source DatabaseHomebrew formula API
Taphomebrew/core
Full Namedocker-agent
Version Scheme0
Revision0
Head VersionHEAD
Bottle Stable Root URLhttps://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core
Deprecatedno
Disabledno
Keg Onlyno
URL Keys
  • head
  • stable

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

winget95%

Docker.Agent

winget install --id Docker.Agent -e
  • normalized package name match
  • Matched by: Docker Agent
Windows Package Manager source index · cdn.winget.microsoft.com · Windows Package Manager source index: Docker.Agent from https://cdn.winget.microsoft.com/cache/source.msix

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

Related tools

  • goBuild dependency declared by Homebrew.
  • docker-enginePackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, docker, runtime.
  • docker-genPackage names and metadata indicate a similar tool family. Shared terms: automation, cli, developer, developer-tools, docker.

Same workflow

  • strands-agents-sopsShares av.db curated category or tags: agents, ai, ai-agents, cli, developer-tools.
  • gptmeShares av.db curated category or tags: agents, ai, cli, developer-tools.
  • cc-connectShares av.db curated category or tags: ai, ai-agents, cli, developer-tools.
  • e2bShares av.db curated category or tags: ai, ai-agents, cli, developer-tools.
  • fabric-aiShares av.db curated category or tags: ai, automation, cli, developer-tools.
  • gastownShares av.db curated category or tags: ai, ai-agents, cli, developer-tools.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

  • Geiger risk classifier
  • Nucleus package database
  • av.db category and tag curation
  • cross-ecosystem install command graph
  • curated configuration and credential file locations
  • curated package history
  • external package-manager database matches
  • package relationship graph
  • package version freshness
  • package-page enrichment