A Coral Agent communicates, coordinates, and carries out tasks. They follow a shared set of standards for messaging, authentication, and secure collaboration. Each agent has a unique ID, a capability declarations, and the ability to take part in workflows managed by the Coral runtime. Depending on its design, an agent can draw on tools such as language models, APIs, datasets, or existing automation scripts, generally speaking you can think of an Agent as a person with a set of specific skills and tools.
  • Teamwork: Agents can make decisions, delegate subtasks to each other, and generate verifiable results on behalf of users or other agents.
  • Payments: Taking part in micropayments through the Coral Protocol’s blockchain layer.
In short, Coral Agents are the active participants that accept tasks, coordinate with others, and contribute knowledge or computation in secure, multi-agent systems.

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Getting started

If you’re building applications, you have a few paths you can take to get started:
  1. Create your own agents with the Coraliser tool.
  2. Browse community-built agents in our GitHub repository.
  3. For more custom setups, add the Coral MCP server directly into your existing infrastructure.

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Adding agents to the Coral Protocol

Getting an agent onto the Coral Protocol is straightforward. An agent only needs the Coral Protocol MCP server to gain the tools required for collaboration. You can add this server manually to your existing agent infrastructure. For a faster setup, there’s the Coraliser. It not only automates the process of adding agents to the protocol but can also convert existing MCP server tools into Coral Agents. The Coraliser supports:
  • Onboarding multi-agent systems
  • Integrating external data sources
  • Connecting to different AI models
  • Quick deployment and configuration
This makes it possible to stand up new agents in seconds, whether you’re building from scratch or adapting tools you already have. For more info on how to setup Agents, check the out our tutorial for Adding Agents to the Coral Protocol