# Build AI agents on Catalyst

This section is for developers who build AI agents and MCP servers.
It takes you from your first agent to running agents in production: durable execution so an agent survives crashes and restarts, an identity for every agent, and policies that control which tools and services it can call.

You keep your agent framework.
Catalyst works with Dapr Agents, LangGraph, CrewAI, Strands, OpenAI Agents, Google ADK, Pydantic AI, and more.

## Quickstart: Run a durable agent

Pick your agent framework to open its quickstart.

- [Dapr Agents](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=dapr-agents)
- [CrewAI](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=crewai)
- [LangGraph](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=langgraph)
- [Strands](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=strands)
- [Microsoft Agent Framework](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=microsoft-dotnet)
- [Spring AI](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=spring-ai)
- [Google ADK](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=adk)
- [OpenAI Agents](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=openai)
- [Pydantic AI](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=pydantic-ai)
- [Deep Agents](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=deepagents)
- [Claude Agents](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=claude-agents)
- [HolmesGPT](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=holmesgpt)
- [Mastra](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents?agentframework=mastra)

## Where to go next

- [Start here](https://docs.diagrid.io/getting-started/quickstarts/ai-agents) — Install the CLI and run your first durable agent in a few minutes.
- [Concepts](https://docs.diagrid.io/concepts/ai-agents) — How agents, MCP, durable execution, and identities fit together.
- [Build](https://docs.diagrid.io/develop/agents) — Guides for each agent framework, for MCP servers, and for enterprise identity.
- [Run & operate](https://docs.diagrid.io/operate/project-operations/agents) — Manage agents, MCP servers, and token budgets, and observe them in production.
- [Reference](https://docs.diagrid.io/references/mcp-servers) — The MCP server reference and the control plane API.

## Learn hands-on

**Dapr & AI University — Learn this hands-on:** [Dapr Agents: Build LLM-powered intelligent applications with tools and workflows](https://www.diagrid.io/university/dapr-agents?utm_source=docs&utm_medium=cta&utm_campaign=dapr-agents)

Build intelligent agents with custom tool calls, MCP integration, and multi-agent collaboration. Requires an OpenAI API key.

Intermediate · 45 min · Python