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Dokugent Overview

Welcome to Dokugent CLI — a documentation-first, agent-centric CLI framework that helps you scaffold, verify, and certify safe AI agent workflows.

Whether you're building with Claude, Codex, GPT-4, Gemini, or your own open-source model, Dokugent helps you define expectations, trace behaviors, and build trust into every agent you ship.

Key Concepts

  • Agent Plans: Step-by-step workflows that the agent follows
  • Criteria: What makes a good response — defined up front
  • Conventions: Model-specific patterns or behavior guides
  • Compliance: Metadata for governance, safety, and policy
  • BYO Bundle: Extra data you want injected into the agent
  • Certs: Signed contracts that lock down an agent’s expected behavior

How It Works

  1. Scaffold your agent with dokugent init
  2. Plan and define behavior with plan, criteria, and conventions
  3. Add constraints and tools with tool-list, compliance, and io
  4. Preview and validate your design before certifying
  5. Sign your agent with dokugent certify
  6. Compile your final .compiled.cert.json with trace logs

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