Apache Flink Agents

Apache Flink Agents is an Agentic AI framework based on Apache Flink.

Building

Prerequisites for building Flink Agents:

• Unix-like environment (we use Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin, WSL)
• Git
• Maven
• Java 11
• Python 3 (3.9, 3.10, 3.11 or 3.12)

To clone from git, enter:

git clone https://github.com/apache/flink-agents.git

Java Build

To build Flink Agents Java part, run:

cd flink-agents
mvn clean install -DskipTests

Python Build

Using uv (Recommended) — Build and Install

cd python

# Install uv (fast Python package manager)
pip install uv

# Create env and install build dependencies
uv sync --extra build

# Build sdist and wheel into python/dist/
uv run python -m build

# Install the built wheel into the environment
uv pip install dist/*.whl

Using pip (Alternative) — Build and Install

cd python

# Install project (editable) with 'build' extra/tools
pip install -e .[build]

# Build sdist and wheel into python/dist/
python -m build

# Install the built wheel into the environment
python -m pip install dist/*.whl

How to Contribute

Contribution Guidelines.

Community

Slack

See the Apache Flink website for how to join the slack workspace. We use #flink-agents-dev for developement related discussions.

Community Sync

There is a weekly online sync. Everyone is welcome to join. Please find the schedule, agenda for the next sync, and records of previous syncs in this github discussion page.