Getting Started

This walkthrough installs @a5c-ai/adapters, verifies your environment, and runs your first agent.

1. Install

npm install -g @a5c-ai/adapters

Verify:

adapters --help

You should see the top-level commands: run, detect, agent, plugin, session, hooks, remote.

2. Detect available agents

adapters detect

This probes your PATH for each supported adapter (claude, codex, cursor, gemini, opencode, opencode-http, openclaw, copilot, hermes, pi, omp) and prints version, auth status, and install suggestions for any that are missing.

To install one via the bundled installer:

adapters agent install claude

3. Set credentials

Set the env var required by the agent you want to use, for example:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...

See the per-agent pages for exact variables.

4. First run

adapters run claude --prompt "Say hello from adapters"

Or programmatically:

import { createClient } from '@a5c-ai/adapters';

const client = createClient();
const handle = await client.run({
  agent: 'claude',
  prompt: 'Say hello',
});

for await (const ev of handle.events()) {
  if (ev.type === 'text_delta') process.stdout.write(ev.delta);
}

await handle.done();

Next steps

• Mock harness — test without real providers.
• Hooks — inject policy around tool calls.
• Plugins — install MCP servers.
• Multi-agent — dispatch to several agents at once.