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lightcone-cli

lightcone-cli is Lightcone Research's agentic execution layer for ASTRA (Agentic Schema for Transparent Research Analysis).
It serves as the machinery that ties an analysis astra.yaml specification to a tree of materialized outputs.

Alpha development

lightcone-cli is in early alpha. The CLI, skills, and execution layer are all still moving — expect breaking changes between minor versions. Bug reports, design challenges, and use cases the tooling doesn't yet cover are exactly what we want to hear at this stage; please open an issue on the GitHub repo.

Choose your path to the documentation

  • I want to try it out –

    Installation instructions, step-by-step tutorial, and fast tour of the lightcone framework and its agentic and workflow capabilities.

    User Guide

  • I want to contribute –

    In depth tour of the software architecture, agentic skills and API docs, as well as contribution instructions, aimed for contributors and maintainers.

    Developer corner

Two libraries, one toolchain

  • lightcone-cli

    The library that ships the lc CLI which handle the agent surface (skills, plugins, guardrails) as well as the workflow execution layer. Depends on astra-tools, the SDK for working with ASTRA analysis specifications.

    Repository

  • astra-tools

    The SDK for working with ASTRA analysis specifications. This library provides the astra CLI which handles the ASTRA lifecycle and validation process (schema, prior insights & findings, evidence verification helpers).

    Repository