AI Alliance Office Hours · Live session

CUGA.
The open-source
agent harness.

Configure once. Solve across domains.

CUGA is an open, configurable generalist agent harness built for real enterprise work — and it's ranked top-tier on AppWorld and WebArena, two of the most demanding agent benchmarks in the field. Join us for a live walkthrough with the IBM Research team behind it, plus demos across Health Insurance, Digital Sales, and Knowledge Management.

THU · MAY 14 · 12:00–1:00 PM ET · GOOGLE MEET · FREE

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CUGA is open source — and ranked top-tier on AppWorld and WebArena.
01 — The session

What we'll cover.

CUGA is built in the open, for the people building agents in production. In this Office Hours, the team behind it walks through what makes the harness ready for real work — and demos it across several enterprise domains.

Configurable reasoning modes

Match the reasoning strategy to the task — not the other way around.

Flexible tool integration

OpenAPI, MCP, and LangChain tools plug in cleanly through a single interface.

A modular skills framework

Compose and reuse capabilities across agents and teams.

An advanced knowledge engine

Grounded, retrievable context — so agents act on what's actually true.

Multi-agent orchestration

Coordinate specialist agents on complex, multi-step work.

Enterprise policy + human-in-the-loop

Guardrails and approval flows that match how real organisations operate.

Memory-enabled learning

Agents that get better as they go.

Python SDK across providers

Ship fast across multiple LLM providers.

Live demos · Health Insurance · Digital Sales · Knowledge Management
02 — Audience

Built for the people building agents.

AI engineers & researchers

You're evaluating agent harnesses for real workloads — not toy benchmarks. See how CUGA holds up.

Enterprise architects

You need policy, approval, and orchestration that fit how your organisation already works. See the layers that make CUGA enterprise-ready.

Open-source builders

CUGA is open. Bring your own tools, skills, and integrations — and meet the team you'd be building alongside.

03 — Speakers

Your speakers.

Nir Mashkif

Manager, AI Agents · IBM Research

Nir leads the AI Agents group at IBM Research, focused on agent systems that work reliably outside the lab.

Sami Marreed

CUGA Lead Developer · IBM Research

Sami leads development on CUGA — the reasoning modes, the tool integration layer, and the multi-agent orchestration that ties it together.

Join us Thursday at noon ET.

Free, live, and open — bring your hardest question.

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04 — FAQ

A few quick questions.

Is the session free?
Yes. It's a free, public AI Alliance Office Hours session.
Do I have to register?
No. Just open the Google Meet link on Thursday at 12 PM ET and join. If you'd like a calendar invite, a reminder before we go live, and the recording afterward, you can drop your email above — it's optional.
Will it be recorded?
Yes. The recording, slides, and demo links go to everyone who opts in to the reminder email — or you can check the AI Alliance YouTube channel afterward.
How do I join?
Click the Meet link: meet.google.com/ftw-azwa-gdo. You can also dial in at +1 601-861-4083 with PIN 324 679 076#.
Is CUGA actually open source?
Yes. The repo and getting-started links will be shared on the call and in the follow-up email.
Who's this for?
AI engineers, researchers, enterprise architects, and open-source contributors building or evaluating agent systems. Newer to agents is fine — we'll explain as we go.
Can I submit a question in advance?
Yes — there's an optional field on the registration form, and we'll cover as many as we can during live Q&A.