Flock Agent Framework: interest in a Dapr state store integration doc?

[nmeisenzahl]

What content needs to be created or modified?

We build Flock, an open-source, declarative multi-agent framework built around a blackboard model: agents publish and consume typed artifacts, and an orchestration layer decides what runs next. With Flock 0.5.600 we added an optional Dapr-backed blackboard store, so a Flock agent swarm can use Dapr's State Management API as a distributed, swappable backend without any changes to agent code.

The Agent Integrations page currently features a handful of frameworks, and we're curious whether there's general interest in growing that list further, Flock included.

Describe the solution you'd like

Before we put together a PR, we'd like to check whether this would actually bring value to the community: would documenting Flock's Dapr state store integration on the Agent Integrations page be a good fit alongside the existing frameworks?

If there's interest, we'd follow the same structure as CrewAI/LangGraph/OpenAI, a short landing page plus a how-to page covering setup, component configuration, and swapping backends, and open a PR from there.

Where should the new material be placed?

Our proposal would be a new flock/ folder under daprdocs/content/en/developing-ai/agent-integrations/.

The associated pull request from dapr/dapr, dapr/components-contrib, or other Dapr code repos

N/A — Flock is developed outside the dapr org at github.com/whiteducksoftware/flock. The Dapr integration itself landed in whiteducksoftware/flock#414 and shipped in release 0.5.600.

Additional context

Additional details for anyone evaluating this:

• Flock repository: https://github.com/whiteducksoftware/flock
• Flock documentation: https://whiteducksoftware.github.io/flock/
• Dapr state store guide: https://whiteducksoftware.github.io/flock/guides/dapr-state-store/
• Runnable examples: https://github.com/whiteducksoftware/flock/tree/main/examples/12-dapr
• Background/architecture write-up (blog post): https://whiteduck.de/flock-dapr-resilient-cloud-native-agent-swarms/
• Release notes: https://github.com/whiteducksoftware/flock/releases/tag/0.5.600

[sicoyle]

Hi @nmeisenzahl 👋 Thank you so much for opening this issue, and for bringing Dapr into your open source agent framework! We love cross-OSS integrations and community engagement, and we'd absolutely love to include Flock in our Dapr docs. Please feel free to add the folder as you suggested, and tag me on the PR whenever you're ready or if you need any help along the way! 😇

[nmeisenzahl]

Hi @sicoyle! Awesome, thanks! I'll keep you posted.

[nmeisenzahl]

Hi @sicoyle, we just noticed that the Agent Integrations page has been rewritten.

Would you like us to:

1. Add Flock under Supported frameworks with a link to the docs hosted in the Flock repo, or
2. Contribute to the diagridio/python-ai repo?

Thanks for your feedback!

[JeffreyJPZ]

@nmeisenzahl it depends.

The extensions in python-ai target those who want to offload agent execution to Dapr Workflows and have it orchestrate their agents. A statestore-only integration that you maintain might be better suited to something like the first option, but @sicoyle probably has a better idea of what it should look like exactly.

[tilman-sattler]

@nmeisenzahl , @sicoyle, @JeffreyJPZ

I have opened a Pull Request based on my colleagues, @nmeisenzahl, suggested changes.

Feedback for this Pull Request would be greatly appreciated.