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on 5 Jan 2026, 3:34 pm

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🚀 Greenfield Agent: "Konduct"

A new agent built from scratch with all lessons learned. Go is an excellent choice.

Why Go?

Feature Go Advantage
Concurrency Goroutines + channels = native parallel sessions
Performance Compiled, low memory, fast startup
Binary deploy Single binary, no runtime deps
WebSocket gorilla/websocket is battle-tested
Type safety Catches errors at compile time

Architecture: Konduct

┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    KONDUCT (Go Agent)                          
                                                                  
  ┌─────────────┐   ┌─────────────┐   ┌─────────────┐      
  │ Hub Client  │   │ Session Pool│   │ Provider    │      
  │ (WebSocket) │   │ (goroutines)│   │ Registry    │      
  └──────┬──────┘   └──────┬──────┘   └──────┬──────┘      
                                                      
         └────────────────┼────────────────┘             
                                                          
                   ┌──────┴──────┐                         
                   │  Conductor  │  (orchestrates work)    
                   └──────┬──────┘                         
                                                          
      ┌───────────────────┼───────────────────┐        
                                                    
  ┌───┴───┐          ┌───┴───┐          ┌───┴───┐    
  │Claude │          │OpenAI │          │Gemini │    
  │Worker │          │Worker │          │Worker │    
  └───────┘          └───────┘          └───────┘    
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
                          
              WebSocket (agent initiates)
                          
                          
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
                    KONUI (Hub)                                 
   Work Queue │ Agent Registry │ State Store │ Event Bus       
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Core Components

Component Purpose
Hub Client WebSocket to konui, auto-reconnect, heartbeats
Session Pool Goroutine per session, channel-based event flow
Provider Registry Plugin architecture for AI providers
Conductor Receives work, dispatches to workers, manages lifecycle
Workers Per-provider goroutines, parallel execution

Key Design Decisions

1. AGENT INITIATES CONNECTION
   // Agent connects to hub, not the other way around
   conn := websocket.Connect("wss://hub.greatvibe.ai/agent")
   conn.Register(agentID, capabilities)

2. PROVIDER AS INTERFACE
   type Provider interface {
     Name() string
     Chat(ctx, messages) chan Event  // streaming
     Capabilities() []string       // ["chat", "tools", "vision"]
   }

3. PARALLEL SESSIONS
   // Each session is a goroutine
   for work := range workChan {
     go handleSession(work)  // concurrent
   }

4. GRACEFUL SHUTDOWN
   // Finish active work before exit
   signal.Notify(sigChan, SIGTERM)
   conductor.DrainAndWait(30*time.Second)

Lessons from Konsole Applied

Konsole Problem Konduct Solution
Tight coupling to konui Clean WebSocket protocol, agent-initiated
Restart kills sessions Graceful drain, work resumes on reconnect
Single-threaded Deno Native goroutines, true parallelism
Provider as afterthought Provider interface from day one
SSE one-directional WebSocket bidirectional

Project Structure

konduct/
├── cmd/
│   └── konduct/main.go       # Entry point
├── internal/
│   ├── hub/                  # WebSocket client to konui
│   ├── conductor/            # Work orchestration
│   ├── session/              # Session management
│   └── provider/             # Provider interface
├── providers/
│   ├── claude/               # Claude API + CLI
│   ├── openai/               # OpenAI API
│   └── gemini/               # Gemini API
├── go.mod
└── Makefile

💡 Migration Strategy

Keep konsole running while building Konduct in parallel.

Phase 1: Add agent protocol to konui (work queue, WebSocket endpoint)
Phase 2: Build Konduct MVP (hub client, Claude provider only)
Phase 3: Run both agents side-by-side, route by capability
Phase 4: Add more providers to Konduct, deprecate konsole

What's Next?

Choose an action:

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Type General
Status Completed
Scope vibetools
Tags agentgolangarchitecturegreenfield
Created 5 Jan 2026, 3:34 pm
Updated 5 Jan 2026, 3:34 pm
Timing
⏱️ 101.8s
1 tools
TTFE 5% Thinking 94% Tools 0%
Created By claude

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