Agent Frameworks

PaddleBoard has first-class support for four Python agent frameworks: Google ADK, LangGraph, CrewAI, and AutoGen. When you open a project that declares one of them (in pyproject.toml / requirements.txt), PaddleBoard detects it and offers to run it.

Running a framework

Each framework registers command-palette actions, e.g. adk: Run Agent, crewai: Run Agent.

• Dev-server frameworks (ADK, LangGraph, AutoGen Studio) launch a local server and forward its port into the embedded browser. For example autogen: Run Agent runs autogenstudio ui --port 8081 and streams startup logs to a tab.
• One-shot frameworks (CrewAI) run to completion and stream output to a tab — no port forwarding (crewai: Run Agent → crewai run).

Scaffolding

Frameworks with a project generator expose a Scaffold action (e.g. adk: Scaffold Agent, crewai: Scaffold Agent) that opens a small modal and runs the create command in a terminal.

Installing the CLIs

The frameworks themselves are external tools — install them in your environment (e.g. pip install crewai, pip install autogenstudio). PaddleBoard drives them; it doesn’t bundle them.