// Run commands & scripts
composev5.6.0
Define and run multi-container applications with Docker
Open source Maintained For agents
IN ONE PARAGRAPH
compose is define and run multi-container applications with Docker.
Good for: Developers who want their agent (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor…) to run commands & scripts.
01How to start
- 1Read the official README for requirements and permissions.
- 2Install it as the official guide describes.
- 3Tell your agent the command exists (e.g. in AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md) so it knows when to call it.
02Alternatives & comparison
Compare side by side → moby The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems ★ 72k traefik The Cloud Native Application Proxy ★ 65k caddy Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS ★ 78k pulumi Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language 🚀 ★ 26k nats-server High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system. ★ 21k
03Related
- ›Hugging Face AI Agents Course · Hugging FaceMultilingual (incl. EN/ZH)
- ›huggingface/agents-course · Hugging FaceEnglish
- ›AI Agents for Beginners · MicrosoftMultilingual (incl. EN/ZH)
- ›Building effective agents · AnthropicEnglish
- ›OpenAI: A practical guide to building agents · OpenAIEnglish
- All tutorials →