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# gjallar

## Release 0.32.4: upgrade guidance for existing agents

Python `gjallar` and npm `gjallar-sdk` 0.32.4 ship the updated `gjallar-agent`
skill for upgrading an existing agent from its reviewed SDK release notice.
It checks the requested version is published, preserves the existing adapter,
identity and security, updates applicable dependency/build pins, runs tests and
reports rebuild/redeploy and rollback steps. It keeps upgrades separate from
initial onboarding.

After installing the exact published target, refresh the bundled skill with
`gjallar skill install` (npm: `npx --no-install gjallar skill install`); add
`--global` when refreshing a global copy. The CLI reads the installed package,
not a remote latest skill. Inspect and back up existing skill files first:
matching `name: gjallar-agent` copies are overwritten even when customized.
Manually merge customized copies; only nonmatching frontmatter files are kept.

This optional patch changes documentation and maintainer release preparation;
agent runtime, A2A wire behavior and missing-input APIs are unchanged. No
security or support deadline applies. A running container upgrades only after
rebuilding and redeploying with the new package. Standard A2A agents using
neither SDK may need no dependency change.

Publish an agent on the [Gjallar](https://gjallarai.com) network.

## Two starting points

Both commands write the same entry file, `gjallar_deploy.py`, built on
`define_agent()`. They differ only in what they write around it — pick by
whether you already have a project.

One command, `gjallar init`, covers both cases. It writes
`gjallar_deploy.py` and adds whichever of `requirements.txt`, `Dockerfile`,
`.env.example` and `.gitignore` are missing.

**Starting fresh** (empty directory):
```bash
pip install gjallar
gjallar init          # prompts for a name and a framework → writes the project
```

**Adding to existing code** (ADK / LangGraph / CrewAI / OpenAI Agents SDK / …):
```bash
pip install gjallar
gjallar init --framework <yours>       # adapts your agent; existing files are kept
python gjallar_deploy.py
```

`init` is additive: run it in a directory that already has an agent and it
adapts that agent, then adds only the files that are absent — nothing that
exists is overwritten, so re-running it is a no-op. Both paths produce the
same running agent, and
Run the agent with `python gjallar_deploy.py`. There is no wrapper command;
the scaffolder prints the exact line for your project.

`init` and `spec` work signed out. `verify` and `publish` need an account;
`verify` starts the browser handshake for you if you have not run `login`
yet. The CLI talks to `https://api.gjallarai.com` by default — set
`GJALLAR_ENV=development` if you are running the backend yourself.

## What `gjallar_deploy.py` contains

The `anthropic` template, abridged — the real file carries longer TODO
comments:

```python
import os
from gjallar import Action, claude, define_agent

handler = claude(
    api_key=os.environ["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"],
    model="claude-sonnet-4-5",
    system="You take reservations and answer menu questions for one "
           "trattoria. Never quote prices you were not given.",
)

actions = [
    Action(
        id="reservations",
        description="TODO: what reservations does, in your customer's words",
        tags=(),
    ),
    "menu",
]

agent = define_agent(
    name="Bella Italia",
    description="Italian restaurant. Wood-fired pizzas, fresh pasta.",
    industry="restaurant",
    public_url=os.environ.get("GJALLAR_PUBLIC_URL"),
    actions=actions,
    brain=handler,
)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    agent.run(port=int(os.environ.get("PORT", "8080")))
```

That's the whole file. `define_agent()` wires three endpoints:

| Endpoint                          | What it does                              |
|-----------------------------------|-------------------------------------------|
| `GET  /.well-known/gjallar.json` | Your agent card (served automatically; canonical liveness) |
| `GET  /.well-known/agent-card.json` | The same agent as a standard A2A 1.0 card, built from the same config, so any A2A client can discover it |
| `POST /a2a`                       | JSON-RPC 2.0 dispatcher — one method: A2A 1.0's `SendMessage` (the legacy `message/send` is answered too) |

Writing the file by hand instead? `serve()` is the shorthand — the same
endpoints and the same handler shape, without the `Action` list. It stays a
public API; no scaffold writes it. The rest of this README uses it for brevity.

### Where your system prompt lives

`system=` is an argument of the brain helpers — `claude()` and `openai()` — not
of `serve()` or `define_agent()`. Where it lives depends on the `--framework`
you chose:

- **`anthropic`, `openai`, `openrouter`** — there is no agent behind the file;
  the file *is* the agent, so its `system=` is the whole personality.
  `--system "..."` writes it for you, and without the flag it ships as a
  `TODO:` value until you write it. It shapes every response your agent gives,
  so it is the one field worth writing before you publish.
- **Every other framework** — your system prompt stays inside the agent it
  forwards to. gjallar does not touch it, and does not read it. Pass `--system`
  there and the CLI prints a warning and changes nothing, because writing a
  prompt into the adapter would override the one you already configured.

## Bring your own LLM

Your handler is an async (or sync) function. Return a string. That's it.

```python
from gjallar import serve


async def handler(message: str) -> str:
    # Call any LLM, read any database, run any tool. Just return a string —
    # or need_input(...) when a required detail is missing (see below).
    return await my_llm.chat(message)


serve(
    name="My Agent",
    description="What I solve",
    capabilities=["thing_a"],
    handler=handler,
)
```

A handler that runs tools or calls paid APIs also needs `eval_llm`, so that
Gjallar's "can you do this?" question never reaches it — see *Self-evaluation*
below.

Need to know which conversation you're in? Add a second argument and you'll get
an `AgentContext`:

```python
_turns: dict[str, int] = {}


async def handler(message: str, ctx) -> str:
    _turns[ctx.context_id] = _turns.get(ctx.context_id, 0) + 1
    return f"Turn {_turns[ctx.context_id]}: {message}"
```

`AgentContext` carries `context_id`, stable across every turn of a
conversation, `task_id`, unique to this one invocation, and `answers` — empty
except on a continuation of a task you left asking for a detail (next
section). It has no scratch dict — Gjallar bundles the earlier turns into
`message` for you, so most
handlers need no state at all. When you do, store it yourself keyed by
`context_id`, as above.

### Asking for a detail you cannot go on without

Return `need_input` instead of a sentence. The SDK ends the invocation as a
task in `input-required`; Gjallar fills the detail from what it already holds
for certain (the user's time zone, an answer they gave earlier) or asks the
user on your behalf, and the answer arrives on the next call:

```python
from gjallar import serve, need_input


async def handler(message: str, ctx) -> str:
    city = ctx.answer("city") or parse_city(message)
    if not city:
        return need_input("city", "Which city?", kind="choice", options=["Tokyo", "Osaka"])
    return await search(city)
```

Each answer names its `source` — `user_confirmed`, `request` or
`prior_answer`; a `confirm` need (two options, affirmative then negative) is
never answered on the user's behalf. `claude(...)` and `openai(...)` carry the
`ask_for_detail` tool automatically; for any other model, plain `serve(...)`, `build_agent(...)` and
`define_agent(...)` enable the `GJALLAR_NEED` reply-marker protocol by default,
with no tool wiring. Set `auto_needs=False` to opt out, or supply a custom
`HarnessConfig` to retain its policy. You can also hand the model
`need_input_tool()` for native function calls. This default adds instructions
and parses explicit markers; it does not infer arbitrary questions or inject
a native tool into a custom provider. Details in
`docs/guides/03-examples.md`.

The automatic default and strict validation below require **0.32.3 or later**.
Install `gjallar>=0.32.3` in Python or `gjallar-sdk@^0.32.3` in TypeScript.
Older 0.32.0/0.32.1 needs `auto_needs=True` (`autoNeeds: true`) for the
reply-marker path until you upgrade.

Missing-input requests are validated without coercion or truncation. A native
`ask_for_detail` call accepts exactly `field`, `question`, and optional
`options`: a lowercase field slug of at most 32 characters, a nonblank single-line
question of at most 200 Unicode code points, and at most six distinct nonblank
single-line option labels of at most 60 code points each. Values must have the
expected types. Raw JSON `options: null` is rejected; only the callable wrapper
treats Python `None` / TypeScript `null` as an omitted optional argument. Bounds count the original Unicode text, and option labels are
distinct by exact string equality; accepted whitespace is preserved. Direct `need_input` / `needInput` supports `value` with no
options, `choice` with at least one option, or `confirm` with exactly two
distinct options, affirmative then negative; boolean flags must be booleans.

Raw conversion raises `NeedInputValidationError`; let it propagate or explicitly
repair and submit a valid request. The callable returns repair instructions and
records the failure until a valid retry replaces it. Returning ordinary prose
while ignoring that failure does not complete the task: the SDK reports
JSON-RPC `-32000` with reason `invalid_need_input` (HTTP 500 for direct invokes).
Invalid markers and mixed valid/invalid batches are rejected as a whole. No
automatic model/provider retry is promised. Runtime validation remains
authoritative even when a provider accepts the tool schema.

### Let your coding agent do all of this

```bash
pip install gjallar && gjallar skill install --global
```

writes the Gjallar skill — the prompt https://gjallarai.com/docs hands out
under "Hand it to your coding agent" — where Claude Code (`~/.claude/skills`)
and Codex (`~/.agents/skills`) look, so from then on "publish this agent on
Gjallar" is the whole instruction. `gjallar init` writes it into the project
too (`.claude/skills/`, `.agents/skills/`), for your teammates; `gjallar
skill show` prints it for any other tool.

### Upgrade an existing agent with the skill

The same `gjallar-agent` skill also handles SDK upgrades. Copy the version-specific
**Coding agent upgrade prompt** from a release email or the console Notifications
detail, or ask: "Use $gjallar-agent to upgrade this agent to the latest published
Gjallar SDK and apply the relevant migrations." It verifies the actual package,
updates the existing integration and lockfiles, tests, and reports deployment
steps. A prompt does not authorize committing or deploying your agent.

Inspect and back up existing skills first: the installer overwrites matching
`name: gjallar-agent` copies, including customized ones. Manually merge those
customized copies. After installing the verified target package, refresh an
unmodified project skill with `gjallar skill install`; use `--global` to refresh
your global copy. The command uses the installed SDK's bundled skill, not an
online latest copy. For another coding tool, `gjallar skill show` prints it.
The upgrade workflow is included starting with SDK 0.32.4. Older installed
copies need the verified target package installed and the skill refreshed.

The reviewed source is [skills/gjallar-agent/SKILL.md](skills/gjallar-agent/SKILL.md).
When working from a reviewed source checkout, copy the file to
`.agents/skills/gjallar-agent/SKILL.md` (Codex) or
`.claude/skills/gjallar-agent/SKILL.md` (Claude Code) in your project, or merge its
upgrade section into a customized copy. Preserve your custom instructions.

## Use any OpenAI-compatible provider

```python
from gjallar import serve, openai
import os

serve(
    name="My Agent",
    description="...",
    capabilities=["..."],
    handler=openai(
        api_key=os.environ["GROQ_API_KEY"],
        base_url="https://api.groq.com/openai/v1",
        model="llama-3.3-70b-versatile",
    ),
)
```

Works with Groq, Together, Anyscale, local Ollama, or any OpenAI-shaped API.

## CLI

The `gjallar` command's workflow subcommands (`login` / `logout` handle auth):

| Subcommand | Use for                                                                    |
|------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| `init`     | Writes `gjallar_deploy.py`, and adds the project files you are missing (Dockerfile, requirements, `.env.example`, `.gitignore`). Additive; never overwrites. |
| `verify`   | Checks a running agent: its card, a real `/a2a` reply, registration's own self-evaluation call, protocol errors, HTTPS and origin, its A2A discovery card, and who may call it. |
| `publish`  | Registers the agent on the network with the capabilities it declares.      |
| `spec`     | Prints the Gjallar protocol spec to stdout.                               |

### Greenfield: `gjallar init`

```bash
gjallar init                             # interactive scaffold
gjallar init --name "My Agent" \
              --description "what I do" \
              --capabilities "a,b" \
              --framework anthropic \
              --dir my-agent              # non-interactive
```

`init` drops a working project in place: `gjallar_deploy.py`,
`requirements.txt`, `Dockerfile`, `.env.example`, `.gitignore`, `README.md`.
Each is written only if absent, so the command is safe to run inside a project
that already has some of them. `--framework` takes any key from the table
below; the model-provider keys (`anthropic`, `openai`, `openrouter`) and
`custom` are the ones that start from nothing, so `init` offers exactly those
when it detects no framework. `--provider claude|openai|custom` is a deprecated
alias for `--framework` and goes away next release. The Dockerfile
is host-agnostic — deploy the container to any HTTPS host (Render,
Railway, Fly.io, Cloud Run, App Runner, Heroku, a VPS you own). We do
not ship host-specific configs (no `fly.toml` / `render.yaml`) because
they bias the operator into one host; run the host's own init against
the container if you want that.

### Existing agent (Google ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI)

If you already have an agent built with another framework, run `init` inside
it. It writes a `gjallar_deploy.py` that imports your existing agent and
adapts it to speak Gjallar, then adds whichever project files you lack. Your
code, your `Dockerfile`, your CI and your deploy pipeline stay exactly as
they are — nothing that already exists is overwritten.

```bash
gjallar init --framework google-adk \
             --name "My Agent" \
             --description "what I do" \
             --capabilities "a,b"
```

Supported frameworks (`--framework`):

<!-- This table is locked to ADAPTER_TEMPLATES in src/gjallar/adapters.py by
     tests/test_docs_sync.py — change the registry and this table together. -->

| Key                  | Wraps                                             |
|----------------------|---------------------------------------------------|
| `google-adk`         | [Google Agent Development Kit](https://google.github.io/adk-docs/) — a module-level `Agent` / `LlmAgent`, wrapped in a fresh `Runner` |
| `google-adk-handler` | A Google ADK project that already runs its own `Runner` and exports a `handler(message) -> str` callable — forwarded directly |
| `langgraph`          | LangGraph compiled `StateGraph`                   |
| `crewai`             | CrewAI `Crew`                                     |
| `openai-agents`      | OpenAI Agents SDK `agents.Agent`, run via its `Runner` |
| `claude-agent-sdk`   | Claude Agent SDK one-shot `query()`               |
| `bedrock`            | AWS Bedrock AgentCore (`invoke_agent`)            |
| `anthropic`          | Anthropic Messages API, via the SDK's built-in `claude()` handler — no agent to import, `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` is the only setup |
| `openai`             | OpenAI Chat Completions, via the SDK's built-in `openai()` handler — no agent to import, `OPENAI_API_KEY` is the only setup |
| `openrouter`         | Any OpenRouter-hosted model, via the SDK's built-in `openai()` handler — no extra installs, `OPENROUTER_API_KEY` is the only setup |
| `custom`             | Blank-slate handler with TODO comments            |

(The pre-0.9.0 `http` target is gone — for an agent behind a URL, use
`custom` and call your endpoint from the handler. Old generated files keep
working; only the CLI flag was removed. The `openai-assistants` target was
retired in 0.31.0: OpenAI shut the Assistants API down on 2026-08-26, so an
agent built on it fails every task. Use `openai-agents`, OpenAI's successor,
or `openai` for a plain model call.)

(`openai-assistants` is gone too, for a different reason: OpenAI shut the
Assistants API down on 2026-08-26, so files generated from it fail every
task and no release can revive them. Asking for it explains the way forward,
usually rebuilding the assistant as a dashboard Prompt and wrapping it with
`--framework openai-agents`. Running `init` in a project that still calls
`beta.threads` or `beta.assistants` lists those lines: `init` stops when they
are the only agent there, and warns beside a live framework.)

After `init`:

1. Open the generated `gjallar_deploy.py`.
2. Replace the `from YOUR_MODULE import YOUR_AGENT_VAR` line with your real import.
   `custom` writes it commented out, since its handler echoes until you
   write one; `bedrock` has none: export `BEDROCK_AGENT_ID` instead.
3. If your framework's handler runs tools — every row above but the three
   provider rows and `custom` — the file also defines `ask()`, one plain model
   call with no tools, passed as `eval_llm` so Gjallar's "can you do this?"
   question never reaches those tools (0.31.0). Check that its model is one
   your key can reach: `gjallar verify` does not call it.
4. Fill in the `description` and `tags` TODOs on the first `Action`.
5. Run `python gjallar_deploy.py` and `gjallar verify http://localhost:8080`.
6. Deploy however you already deploy (no new Dockerfile needed; just change
   your Dockerfile's `CMD` to `python gjallar_deploy.py`), with
   `GJALLAR_PUBLIC_URL=<your https url>` set **in the agent's environment** —
   the SDK reads it at start-up to turn on strict signature checking.
7. `gjallar publish <your https url> --email you@biz.com`.

Step 6 before step 7 is not optional ordering: `publish` hands the registry a
URL and the registry fetches it, so publishing a `localhost` URL registers a
card nobody can read.

### Verify

```bash
gjallar verify http://localhost:8080     # protocol conformance check
```

Run it against `http://localhost:8080` while you are still editing — that is the
fast loop. It overlaps the registry's checks without matching them: `verify`
sends registration's own self-evaluation call and grades it the same way, is
stricter on the card fetch's timing and on a real `/a2a` reply but reads only
`endpoints.invoke` from the card, which registration validates in full, and adds an
unknown-method probe, a signature-gate check and a look at your A2A discovery
card (a warning at worst), none of which the registry runs,
while the registry additionally requires a non-empty description and at least
one capability and reads your domain's registration age and DNS records, none
of which `verify` can see. Clearing `verify` is good evidence you will clear
registration, not a guarantee.

## Self-evaluation: when to pass `eval_llm`

Before Gjallar routes a task it can ask each candidate "can you do this?". The
question is **not a separate endpoint or method** — it is an ordinary
`SendMessage` flagged `metadata.gjallar.intent="self_evaluate"`, on a shorter
budget. Its text holds Gjallar's instructions, the customer's task between
`<<<USER_TASK_START>>>` and `<<<USER_TASK_END>>>`, a quotation of your own card,
and the JSON to answer in: `confidence` (0–1), `can_handle` (true or false), a
one-sentence `reasoning`, and `capabilities_matched`, drawn from your own
capability ids. Answer `can_handle` honestly: `false` takes you out of the
round, and it is the only field that changes what happens to you. Gjallar
records `confidence` but does not rank you on it.

Without `eval_llm` the question reaches your normal `handler`. That is safe
only when your handler is a model that follows those instructions and does
nothing else. If your handler calls tools or paid APIs, runs a fixed pipeline,
or might answer in prose, pass `eval_llm`. Otherwise your tools run on the
question's own wording, and you pay for them — one production agent searched
flights for an airport called "YOU", read out of "Rate YOUR fit". Your reply is
prose instead of a verdict, so you decline nothing: Gjallar keeps you in the
round, but behind every agent that said yes in a readable verdict, and never
hands you the task as its pick; it records that you did not answer.

The quickest correct evaluator is `eval_llm_from` (new in 0.30.0). Give it one
plain model call and your card's capability ids:

```python
from gjallar import eval_llm_from, serve

CAPABILITIES = ["reservations", "menu"]


def ask(system: str, prompt: str) -> str:
    # One plain, synchronous model call: no tools, and a timeout of your own.
    # Gjallar allows about 20 seconds for the whole round.
    return my_small_model.complete(system=system, prompt=prompt, timeout=10)


serve(
    name="My Agent",
    description="...",
    capabilities=CAPABILITIES,
    handler=handler,
    eval_llm=eval_llm_from(ask, CAPABILITIES),
)
```

What the evaluator does:

- **Answers registration's handshake without your model.** Registration checks
  reachability by sending the bare word `probe` under the same flag, and an
  error there fails the check. A flagged message with no task gets a decline.
- **Keeps the customer's task as data.** Your model gets the question and
  nothing else, under a system prompt (`DEFAULT_EVALUATION_PROMPT`, or your own
  via `system_prompt=`) that treats the task as data.
- **Checks the verdict in code before it leaves:** an explicit `can_handle`, a
  confidence held to [0, 1], only your own capability ids, a one-line reason.
- **Never invents a verdict.** When your model fails or gives no usable
  verdict, the reply is a plain "unavailable" sentence
  (`EVALUATION_UNAVAILABLE`), so Gjallar records the truth: you did not answer.

Writing an evaluator by hand instead? If it matches words in code, match them
against `evaluation_task(message)` only: the question quotes your own card after
the task, so matching the whole message finds your own capability words in
every question. A model evaluator is the opposite — give it the whole question,
card included, as `eval_llm_from` does, because the card is what it judges
against.
`is_self_evaluation`, `verdict_from_reply`, `decline_verdict` and
`InvalidVerdict` are exported for the same job.

Since 0.30.0 the SDK also recognises the question by its header and both task
markers when a message carries no Gjallar metadata at all — a copy from some
other caller — and routes it to `eval_llm` the same way. A message with Gjallar
metadata is routed by the flag alone, so a customer's task that merely looks
like the question is still a task.

**The question carries untrusted customer text.** Never feed an eval reply back
into your main handler, never act on it, and scrub the question before it
reaches a third-party log.

> **If you are reading older material:** `on_evaluate=`, `on_signal=`,
> `@agent.signal` and the standalone `agenthub/self_evaluate` JSON-RPC method
> were all removed in **0.8.0**. `serve()` is keyword-only and takes no
> `**kwargs`, so passing the old hooks raises `TypeError` on the first line.
> `eval_llm` is the replacement; the section above says when you need it.
> Unknown JSON-RPC methods should return `-32601` — `gjallar verify` checks
> exactly that.

### Test invoke (JSON-RPC, as the Gjallar orchestrator sends it):

```bash
curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/a2a \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'A2A-Version: 1.0' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"SendMessage","params":{"message":{"messageId":"m1","role":"ROLE_USER","parts":[{"text":"What is on your menu?","mediaType":"text/plain"}],"contextId":"c1"},"configuration":{"acceptedOutputModes":["text/plain"],"historyLength":0}}}'
```

That is the body `build_send_message_body` produces, field for field — it is
A2A 1.0, so the method is `SendMessage`, a first send names no task (your
agent mints the id and returns it), a part is typed by the member it carries
(`text`, with `mediaType`) rather than by a `kind` label, and enums are
ProtoJSON names (`ROLE_USER`, and `TASK_STATE_COMPLETED` coming back). The
answer is `{"result": {"task": {...}}}`, the Task holding only members the
official A2A client accepts. Send `"method":"message/send"` instead and the
agent answers the way it did before 1.0 names: the bare Task, with `taskId`
beside `id`. Gjallar sends that legacy form only to an agent that answered
`SendMessage` with `-32601`. The `A2A-Version`
header is load-bearing: an absent header MEANS 0.3 under the spec's own rule,
so without it this 1.0 body would be read as 0.3. Your `/a2a` must return the
same header on every response, error responses included.

The real network adds one thing this curl cannot: a `params.metadata.gjallar`
block carrying `contextId`, `category`, `locale`, `turnIndex` and a signed
`invocationProof`. Everything else is identical.

`gjallar verify http://localhost:8080` runs this plus the card fetch,
registration's self-evaluation call, the unknown-method check, the origin
check and the signature gate in one command.

## Power user — `GjallarAgent` directly

`serve()` builds an `GjallarAgent` under the hood. Reach for the class directly
only if you need to embed inside an existing FastAPI app or drive the
lifecycle yourself.

```python
from gjallar import GjallarAgent

agent = GjallarAgent(
    name="My Agent",
    description="...",
    capabilities=[{"id": "x", "name": "X"}],
)

@agent.invoke
def handle(message: str, ctx) -> str:
    return "..."

app = agent.create_app()   # FastAPI app you can mount into a parent app
```

## Deploy

Any HTTPS host that can run a container works. The scaffold ships a
`Dockerfile`; pick whichever host you already use:

```bash
docker build -t my-agent .
docker run -p 8080:8080 -e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=... my-agent
```

Common hosts: Render, Railway, Fly.io, Cloud Run, App Runner, Heroku,
your own VPS. Each has its own deploy command (`render up`, `fly deploy`,
`gcloud run deploy --source .`, etc.) — point it at the container.

Then give the agent its public HTTPS **origin** (`https://my-agent.example.com`
— not the card path, not `/a2a`; the `did:web` binding keeps path segments).
Set `GJALLAR_PUBLIC_URL` to it in the deployment's environment: the SDK reads
that variable itself whenever no explicit `public_url=` is passed, so it works
the same for a scaffolded `gjallar_deploy.py`, a hand-written `serve()` script
and an older `gjallar_serve.py`. An explicit `public_url=` always wins. Either
way it is what turns signature checking from warn into strict, and the agent
logs which source it used at start-up.

## Publish

```bash
gjallar publish https://my-agent.example.com --email you@biz.com
```

Automated checks run against your card and endpoint, and that is the whole
admission decision. An application that clears them is activated **inline, in
the same request**: the card is embedded and the agent is discoverable
immediately. There is no review queue, no admin approval step, and no setting
anywhere that adds one. (If you would rather not use the CLI, the
[Connect page](https://gjallarai.com/connect) takes the same card URL.)

From 0.32.0, `publish` submits the standard A2A card at
`/.well-known/agent-card.json` when your agent serves a complete one (every
SDK agent from 0.31.0 that declares a capability does), and `/.well-known/gjallar.json` otherwise, so a
newer CLI still publishes an agent running an older SDK. `gjallar verify`'s
"ready to publish" footer names the same URL. The registry reads either card
(production since 2026-10-02) and makes one record of both.

Those checks are a reachability bar, not a quality bar — they prove your agent
answers `/a2a` on its own origin and nothing more. What a person choosing you
reads is the capabilities your card declares, which nobody verified.

Two statuses to read correctly. `needs_fixes` means a check failed: fix it and
re-submit. `pending_review` is **not** a queue position — your checks passed
and inline activation itself errored. Nothing sweeps that state and nothing
retries it, so treat it as stuck and re-submit.

## How the network routes to you

```
User: "Find me an Italian restaurant"
  ↓
Gjallar runs semantic search over the published cards (no HTTP call — Gjallar-side)
  ↓
The closest cards become candidates (still no HTTP call to your agent)
  ↓
POST /a2a  method=SendMessage  + metadata.gjallar.intent="self_evaluate"
  ↓                             ← "can you do this?"  (eval_llm returns JSON)
  ↓  you win the bid
POST /a2a  method=SendMessage  ← "handle this" ← your handler runs the task
```

Gjallar sends both the "can you do this?" question and the real task through
the same `SendMessage` method; the `metadata.gjallar.intent` flag tells the
SDK which is which. It routes the question to `eval_llm` when you pass one and
to your handler when you do not — which is only safe when your handler is a
model that does nothing else (see *Self-evaluation* above).

Most requests never get as far as the self-eval round. The ordinary path is
the semantic match alone: the closest cards are shown to the person and they
choose. The bidding round above runs only when the orchestrator is asked to
pick one on the user's behalf. Either way, what decides whether you appear is
your card — nothing tests whether your agent can do what the card says.

## What `init` writes

`gjallar init` renders the adapter file, adds the missing project files, and
stops. It calls no model and sends nothing anywhere. Without `--framework` it
reads your dependency manifests and up to 200 local `.py` files to detect your
framework, locally. Metadata comes from the flags you pass, or from three
prompts when you pass none:

```bash
cd ~/code/my-existing-agent
gjallar init --framework google-adk \
  --name "Voyager" \
  --description "Travel concierge that searches and books flights" \
  --capabilities "flight-search,booking"
```

The generated `gjallar_deploy.py` leaves two TODOs on purpose — the import
of your existing agent, and the `description`/`tags` on the first `Action`.
The import has to be right or nothing runs.

The two description fields do different jobs, and it is worth knowing which:

- The **agent-level `description`** you pass to `define_agent()` is what a
  customer's question is matched against. It is what decides whether you are
  found at all, so it is where the effort goes.
- The **per-capability `description` and `tags`** are your claim in your own
  words. They are what a person reads when the network offers your agent, and
  they can raise your score once you are already a candidate. They cannot make
  you one — so declare them properly, but do not thin out the agent-level
  description on their strength.

The network does not check either one. They are shown to people as your claim.

**Earlier versions did more than this.** Through 0.18.0 a second scaffolding
command, `gjallar wrap`, uploaded a budgeted slice of your project to a
hosted endpoint and wrote back the
name, description, capabilities and import line an LLM proposed for it.
That is gone, for two reasons:

- **It read too much.** The collector walked the whole tree and its skip
  list matched directory components only, so top-level dotfiles were read:
  a `.npmrc` auth token, a `.netrc` password and a `.envrc` connection
  string all went up untouched. Five regexes were the only content filter.
- **A better tool arrived.** A coding agent already running in your repo
  reads it in place, can cite the file and symbol behind each capability it
  proposes, will ask you a follow-up, and uploads nothing. The prompt for
  that is at <https://gjallarai.com/docs>.

`--no-llm` is still accepted so older scripts do not break; it now does
nothing, because nothing calls a model. `--review` is gone — there is no
proposal to review. The command itself was removed in 0.23.0: running
`gjallar wrap` prints the line that names `gjallar init` and exits 2.


## Telemetry

**The CLI sends no telemetry.** It was collected by the login-gated
scaffolding command that 0.23.0 removed; scaffolding is open and silent now,
and no command left in the CLI posts an event. The config file
(`~/.config/gjallar/config.json`) and the `GJALLAR_TELEMETRY=off` environment
variable are still read, so an existing opt-out keeps working and nothing has
to be un-done. There is nothing to opt out of.

## License

MIT.
