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Better Agents is a TypeScript CLI that initializes AI-agent projects with a standardized structure, generated development guidance, MCP configuration, versioned prompts, Scenario tests, evaluation notebooks and observability instrumentation.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use Better Agents when beginning an agent project or when adopting a structured workflow for prompts, behavioral tests, evaluations and assistant-supported development.

Who it is for

  • Developers starting projects with agent frameworks such as Agno, Mastra or LangGraph
  • Teams using coding assistants to develop and maintain AI agents
  • Agent builders who need documented locations for tests, evaluations and versioned prompts

Documented uses

  • Initialize a new agent repository with a consistent structure
  • Add scenario-based behavioral tests for agent features
  • Evaluate RAG, classification or other agent-pipeline components in notebooks
  • Manage prompts as versioned YAML files through a registry
  • Configure MCP and coding-assistant guidance for an agent project
Before you choose

Requirements & limits

The repository is public and distributed under the MIT license. The documented setup requires Node.js 22+, npm or pnpm, a supported coding assistant, a LangWatch API key and an LLM-provider API key. Anonymous telemetry is enabled by default, with a documented opt-out variable.

  • It supports several agent frameworks rather than defining a single agent runtime.
  • The generated structure includes Scenario tests, evaluation notebooks, prompt files, .mcp.json and AGENTS.md.
  • The documented initialization flow is for creating projects; migration details for arbitrary existing repositories are not provided.
  • Using the tool requires both LangWatch and selected LLM-provider API keys.
  • The CLI is TypeScript-based and distributed through npm or npx.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Initialize a standardized agent project

Create a new Better Agents project with selected language, framework, coding assistant, LLM provider and API keys.

Before you start

  • Node.js 22+
  • npm or pnpm
  • A supported coding assistant: Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity or Kilocode
  • A LangWatch API key
  • An API key for the chosen LLM provider

Steps

  1. Install the package globally with npm, or invoke it with npx.

  2. Run the Better Agents init command for the current or a new directory.

  3. Follow the CLI prompts to select the programming language, agent framework, coding assistant, LLM provider and API keys.

Expected outcome

A project is initialized with the documented Better Agent Structure, including agent code, scenario-test and evaluation directories, prompt files, MCP configuration and AGENTS.md guidance.

Guide limitations

  • The source documents initialization and generated artifacts but does not establish successful execution of the resulting agent project.
  • The selected framework, provider and assistant determine the project choices presented during initialization.
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