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Beacon captures activity across agent harnesses and turns it into a shared history you can search, debug, analyze, and learn from. Run Beacon locally with full control of your data, or use Beacon Managed for hosted storage, search, analytics, and unlimited retention.

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Why Beacon

Agent history is fragmented across tools. Prompts, tool calls, commands, file edits, and model interactions are often trapped inside individual harnesses and session formats. Beacon normalizes that activity into one consistent record across agents. That shared history makes it easier to:
  • debug failed workflows
  • understand how agents are being used
  • analyze runtime behavior
  • compare activity across harnesses
  • surface recurring workflows and corrections
  • turn past agent runs into reusable knowledge

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From traces to shared knowledge

Every agent session contains useful context: debugging paths, repository conventions, repeated corrections, commands, and tool sequences. Beacon captures that history so it can be reused across future runs and across different harnesses. Every run adds to the knowledge base.

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Beacon

Beacon is built on the agent-beacon repository. Agent Beacon GitHub star growth If you are starting with Beacon, these pages are the most useful next steps:

Quickstart

Choose the right setup path for a managed rollout or local developer evaluation.

Open Source Architecture

Learn how Beacon collects, normalizes, stores, correlates, and detects telemetry across every supported surface.

Local testing

Validate endpoint health, events, dashboard access, MCP access, and logs.

Agent harness integrations

See supported agent harnesses, deployment modes, destinations, and boundaries.

Endpoint event schema

Review Beacon JSONL fields, normalization behavior, and example events.

Security & IT Rollout Guide

Plan endpoint inventory, MDM rollout, retention policy, validation, and log forwarding.
Additional references: Core Concepts, Command reference, and MCP server.

Beacon

Install the open-source CLI and configure Agent Beacon telemetry.

Beacon Managed

Review managed visibility, investigations, and rollout support.

Hosting Options

Compare the open-source local path with managed and enterprise deployment options.

Pricing

See plan positioning for open-source, managed enterprise, and private deployment.