> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.agentscope.io/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is AgentScope?

> Build and run agents you can see, understand and trust.

AgentScope is a production-ready, easy-to-use agent framework with essential abstractions that works with rising model capability and built-in support for finetuning.

We design for increasingly agentic LLMs. Our approach leverages the models' reasoning and tool-use abilities rather than constraining them with strict prompts and opinionated orchestrations.

## Why use AgentScope?

* **Simple yet powerful**: start building your agents in 5 minutes with built-in ReAct agent, tools, skills, human-in-the-loop steering, memory, planning, realtime voice, evaluation, model finetuning, etc.
* **Extensible**: a large number of ecosystem integrations for tools, memory and observability; built-in support for protocols such as MCP, A2A and agent skills; message hub for flexible multi-agent orchestration and workflows.
* **Production-ready**: deploy and serve your agents locally, as serverless in the cloud, or on your K8s cluster with built-in OTel support and multi-language support.

## Start with AgentScope

* [Quickstart ->](/versions/1.0.21/quickstart): Build your first chatbot agent in 5 minutes
* [Out-of-box agents ->](/versions/1.0.21/out-of-box-agents): Try out our collection of pre-built agents for various use cases
* [Basic concepts & building blocks ->](/versions/1.0.21/basic-concepts): Learn about the core abstractions in AgentScope and how to use them
* [Observe & evaluate ->](/versions/1.0.21/observe-and-evaluate): Learn how to observe and evaluate your agents with built-in OTel support and evaluation tools
* [Deploy & serve ->](/versions/1.0.21/deploy-and-serve): Deploy your agents locally, as serverless in the cloud or on your K8s cluster, with different protocols and tool sandboxes

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We believe agents should be transparent, understandable and steerable by developers.