What is the agent core service, and what responsibilities does it have in your architecture?

The agent core service is the central orchestrator in a microservice architecture that manages all agent interactions. It exposes a REST or gRPC API for creating, updating, and deleting agents, and it coordinates the lifecycle of each agent instance. Internally, it maintains a registry of available agent types, loads the appropriate model or script, and handles authentication and authorization. The core service also provides health checks, metrics, and logging, making it the single point of control for monitoring and scaling. By decoupling the core logic from the front‑end and data‑storage services, we can update agent behavior without redeploying the entire system. In practice, the core service receives a request to start an agent, looks up the configuration in a config store, spins up a worker process or container, and returns a session ID that the UI can use to communicate with the agent.