12 Factor Agents
Twelve-factor methodology adapted for building production-ready AI agents
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When to Use
- +Building production agents
- +Team standards
- +Architecture guidance
When Not to Use
- -Need code framework
- -Quick prototypes
- -Learning basics
Strengths
- 16k+ stars
- Best practices
- Production focus
- Framework agnostic
Weaknesses
- Documentation only
- Not a framework
- Requires interpretation
Operations
Quick Facts
- Category
- AI Agents
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- free (free tier)
- Community
- large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- rapidly growing
- Vendor Lock-in
- none
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
Best For
Use Cases
- Agent architecture
- Best practices
- Production agents
- Team standards
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