Start from a Marketplace Template

The Marketplace is a catalog of ready-made templates that HiveMQ built for industrial IoT and smart manufacturing. Each agent template is a complete agent definition that describes what an agent does. You clone a template, adapt the configuration to your environment, and deploy the template to create a running agent. A cloned agent template is the fastest way to a working agent because you start from a proven configuration and adapt it.

To get started, open the Marketplace tab in Act.

The Marketplace shows agent templates, not running agents. To see your running agents, switch to the Deployed Agents tab.

Browse the Marketplace

Each agent template appears as a card with the following information:

  • The template name.

  • A short description of what the agent does after you deploy the template.

  • A by HiveMQ author line.

  • A version badge.

Use the search field to filter the template cards. Click any card to open the template detail page.

Review an Agent Template

Before you clone an agent template, review the template details. Each detail page shows the following information:

  • The author (by HiveMQ) and the date of the last update.

  • The template name and full description.

  • A category badge that shows the role of the agent. For example, Monitor.

  • A version badge.

  • Tag chips that describe the agent that the template defines. For example, its reasoning mode (deterministic), its task (anomaly-detection), the technologies that it uses (mqtt, sendgrid), and its oversight (hitl, human-in-the-loop review). The demo tag marks agent demonstration templates.

From the detail page, you can go back to the list of agent templates, clone the template, or download the template YAML file.

Clone a Template Into the Agent Builder

Select Clone template to open the Agent Builder, prefilled with the configuration of the template. The platform populates every stage (identity, connections, and the Sense, Reason, Actuate, and Reflect stages) from the agent template, ready for you to adapt.

From the builder, you can refine any stage, save the result as your own agent template, and deploy it. See Configure an Agent.

Download the Agent Template YAML File

To save the agent template configuration file without opening the Agent Builder, click the download icon next to the Clone template option on the detail page. Use this option to review the configuration, store the version in your own repository, or import the configuration into another environment.

Your Organization’s Templates

The Agent Templates tab lists the agent templates that your organization owns. These are the agent templates you cloned, drafted with Bea, or imported. Each card shows the template name, description, version, and creation date.

From the Agent Templates tab, you can perform the following actions:

  • Click Import template to import an existing data-defined agent (DDA) configuration file from your computer.

  • Click a card to open the agent template in the Agent Builder for editing.

  • Click Deploy on a card to start the deploy wizard for that template. See Deploy an Agent.