DMAS-Forge: A Framework for Transparent Deployment of AI Applications as Distributed Systems

Abstract

Agentic AI applications increasingly rely on multiple agents with distinct roles, specialized tools, and access to memory layers to solve complex tasks—closely resembling service-oriented architectures. Yet, in the rapid evolving landscape of programming frameworks and new protocols, deploying and testing AI agents as distributed systems remains a daunting and labor-intensive task. We present DMAS-Forge, a framework designed to close this gap. DMAS-Forge decouples application logic from specific deployment choices, and aims at transparently generating the necessary glue code and configurations to spawn distributed multi-agent applications across diverse deployment scenarios with minimal manual effort. We present our vision, design principles, and a prototype of DMAS-Forge. Finally, we discuss the opportunities and future work for our approach.