Zero-to-hero support desk

A maintained 0-to-hero reference for the Go Micro lifecycle: scaffold a few typed services, run them in one process, let an agent chat with those services as tools, then inspect the durable flow that triggered the work. It is one runnable file and one CI smoke test, so the reference path stays honest as the framework evolves.

The path

1. Scaffold services — customers, tickets, and notify are ordinary typed Go Micro services. Their request/response structs and method comments become the tool contract the agent sees.
2. Run the harness — the example starts an in-memory registry, broker, client, store, services, agent, and flow in one process; no external dependencies or API key are required for the default run.
3. Chat through an agent — the support agent receives the ticket event as a prompt and calls service tools to look up the customer, triage the ticket, and draft a reply.
4. Inspect the workflow — the intake flow records the event-driven run and prints the agent result, showing the service → agent → workflow lifecycle as one runtime.

The scenario

A customer files a ticket. A ticket.created event triggers the support agent, which:

1. looks the customer up (customers service),
2. sets the ticket's priority (tickets service),
3. drafts a reply and emails it (notify service) — but only after passing the approval gate.

> event: events.ticket.created {"id":"ticket-1","customer":"[email protected]",...}

    [customers] looked up Alice (pro plan)
    [tickets]   ticket-1 → priority=high status=in_progress
    ▣ approval gate notify_NotifyService_Send([email protected]) — approved
    [notify]    📨 [email protected]: "Hi Alice — thanks for reaching out..."

✓ ticket triaged and the customer was replied to — triggered by an event

The pieces

• Services (customers, tickets, notify) — plain Go Micro services. The agent discovers their endpoints as tools automatically.
• Agent (support) — micro.NewAgent with those three services. It reasons over the ticket and calls the tools.
• Flow (intake) — triggers on events.ticket.created and hands the event to the agent: the event is the prompt. No human types anything.
• Guardrail (ApproveTool) — the agent can read and triage freely, but emailing a customer (notify.Send) passes through the gate first. Return false to hold it for a person or a policy; the example approves and logs.

Expected inspect transcript

The provider-free run prints the same visible checkpoints a new developer should compare against after chat and flow execution. The transcript includes service tool calls, the approval gate, and the inspect/run-history commands that prove the workflow run was recorded.

> event: events.ticket.created {"customer":"[email protected]","id":"ticket-1","subject":"Can't log in"}

    [customers] looked up Alice (pro plan)
    [tickets] ticket-1 → priority=high status=in_progress
  ▣ approval gate notify_NotifyService_Send([email protected]) — approved
    [notify] 📨 [email protected]: "Hi Alice — thanks for reaching out. We've bumped this to high priority and are on it."

support agent: Triaged ticket-1 for Alice and sent a reply.

inspect transcript:
  micro inspect flow intake
  flow: intake runs=1 latest.reply="Triaged ticket-1 for Alice and sent a reply."
  micro agent history support
  agent: support runs=1 latest.status=completed

✓ ticket triaged and the customer was replied to — triggered by an event

Run

go run main.go            # mock model — deterministic, no API key

The maintained check is the same deterministic path:

go test ./examples/support

Against a live model, the agent reasons about the ticket itself instead of following the script:

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-...   # or OPENAI_API_KEY, GEMINI_API_KEY, ...
go run main.go -provider anthropic

What to change next

• Make the gate real: return false from ApproveTool for billing actions, or route the decision to a human.
• Expose the agent over A2A so another team's agent can file tickets — add agent.WithA2A(":4000").
• Add a kb (knowledge base) service and watch the agent search it before replying.