About voyager-agent
voyager-agent is a general-purpose agent that composes Voyager sensing modules, gathering observations from repositories, hosts, or web pages and linking them into an evidence graph. Its reasoning model is replaceable, with a rule-based default that needs no LLM; sensing is read-only and remediation is never applied.
Key features
- 01Activate senses according to a goal
- 02Collect observations in parallel and link evidence
- 03Choose follow-up probes by information gain
- 04Use a rule-based or replaceable model
- 05Keep sensing read-only and remediation consent-gated
Use cases
- 01Inspect a repository and flag risks
- 02Audit exposure on an authorized host
- 03Observe a web page and summarize findings
- 04Combine observations into a mission conclusion
MCP support
It provides an MCP server with one tool, run_mission. A client supplies a goal and receives the full cognitive claim graph.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
Tools
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| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| url | string | No | A live http(s) URL to observe (read-only page sense). |
| host | string | No | A single host/domain you own, to audit. |
| intent | string | Yes | The goal, in plain language. |
| repoPath | string | No | A local repository path to orient in. |
| checkDeps | integer | No | Verify up to N dependencies during the repo scout. |
| authorized | boolean | No | Assert you own/are permitted to test `host`. Required to audit it. |
Details
From the project README@dir-ai/voyager-agent
The one universal Voyager. A thin, model-independent orchestrator that turns
the modular Voyager senses — voyager-repo (code), voyager-net (hosts), and
the cognitive contract that binds them — into a single agent. You name a goal;
Voyager activates the senses it needs, runs a live mission, links the
evidence into one graph, and concludes.
It is composition, not a monolith. The agent never absorbs the senses — it
calls the published organs and adapts what they see into the shared
CognitiveClaim
substrate. The reasoning model is a swappable seam (Brain); a rule-based
brain ships so it runs with no LLM at all.
Sensing is autonomous. Acting is not. Every sense here is read-only. Any remediation a mission surfaces is carried as a consent-gated, withheld action and is never applied by this orchestrator.
Install
npm i -g @dir-ai/voyager-agent
Use
# Orient in a repo and flag risk (voyager-repo)
voyager-agent mission "audit this project" --repo .
# Audit ONE host you own (voyager-net — fail-closed, needs --authorized)
voyager-agent mission "check my server's exposure" --host example.com --authorized
# Observe a live page (voyager-browser — read-only, static HTML)
voyager-agent mission "check my landing page" --url https://example.com
# All three senses in one mission; vet 10 dependencies; machine-readable
voyager-agent mission "full audit" --repo . --host example.com --authorized --url https://example.com --check-deps 10 --json
Senses fan out in parallel and are resilient: a sense that errors (or even throws) becomes a low-confidence, flagged observation — it never crashes the mission or discards a sibling sense's good result.
The mission then re-plans: it picks the single most informative next probe
(by information gain) and executes it, bounded by maxRounds. How a probe is
executed is an injectable dispatch seam (the model decides); the safe default
only ever re-reads (deepens repo dependency-vetting) and never acts. A verify
claim closes the mission so state().satisfied is meaningful.
Voyager — one agent, one entry.
goal: "orient in this repo and flag risk"
👁 observe [repo] (70% · moderate)
@dir-ai/[email protected] — The one universal Voyager…
↳ [low] no-lockfile: no lockfile — installed versions are not pinned/reproducible
🧠 infer [memory] (70% · moderate)
repo observed; 0 high/critical signal(s). No high-severity issue surfaced.
next probe: [repo] open src/index.ts
As an MCP server
One tool, run_mission — describe a goal, get back the full claim graph.
voyager-agent mcp # stdio
{
"command": "voyager-agent",
"args": ["mcp"]
}
As a library
import { runMission, DeterministicBrain, type Brain } from '@dir-ai/voyager-agent'
const { mission } = await runMission(
'audit this repo and my host',
{ repoPath: '.', host: 'example.com', authorized: true /* your own host */ },
Date.now(),
)
for (const claim of mission.allClaims()) console.log(claim.operation, claim.sense, claim.verdict)
console.log(mission.state().bestNextProbe) // the most informative next step
console.log(mission.state().contradictions) // where two senses disagree
Bring your own model
The Brain interface is the whole point — it's where an LLM plugs in without
touching the senses, the memory, or the mission machinery. A ready-made
LlmBrain ships: give it one model-agnostic complete() function and it
plans and synthesizes through the model. Wire Claude, a local server, or any
OpenAI-compatible endpoint — Voyager never depends on a specific SDK.
import { runMission, LlmBrain } from '@dir-ai/voyager-agent'
const brain = new LlmBrain({
// Return the model's text for these messages — that's the whole dependency.
async complete(messages) {
const res = await myModel.chat(messages) // Claude, local, OpenAI-compatible…
return res.text
},
})
await runMission('audit this repo and my host', { repoPath: '.', brain }, Date.now())
LlmBrain is fail-safe: if the model errors or returns unparseable output,
it degrades to the built-in rule-based brain for that step — a bad completion
can never take a mission down, only make it less clever once. You can also
implement the Brain interface directly for full control.
How it works
intent ─▶ Brain.decompose ─▶ goals
│
┌─────────────┼───────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
voyager-repo voyager-net (more senses…)
scout() scan()
│ │
▼ ▼
adapters: brief ─▶ CognitiveClaim
│ │
└──────▶ MissionGraph ◀───────┘
(contradictions, causal chain,
best-next-probe, memory)
│
▼
Brain.synthesize ─▶ conclusion
Each sense produces a CognitiveClaim; the
MissionGraph links
them — auto-detecting cross-sense contradictions, assembling the causal
chain, and surfacing the single most informative next probe by information
gain. A sense error becomes a low-confidence observe claim flagged with the
unknown — never a false "all clear".
The Voyager family
| Package | Sense | What it does |
|---|---|---|
@dir-ai/voyager | web | verified-internet retrieval, OSV-gated |
@dir-ai/voyager-repo | code | orient in a repository, vet dependencies |
@dir-ai/voyager-net | hosts | authorized, read-only host audit |
@dir-ai/voyager-contract | — | the cognitive contract the senses speak |
@dir-ai/voyager-agent | all | the one agent that composes them |
Safety
- Read-only senses. Nothing is installed, executed, or mutated on your systems.
- Fail-closed host audit. A host is only scanned with
--authorized/authorized: true; single host only (no ranges/URLs), cloud-metadata blocked. - Consent-gated action. Remediation is described and withheld, surfaced as an
unknownon the claim — this orchestrator never applies it. - Honest uncertainty. Confidence and
strengthare explicit; a sense error is a flagged unknown, not a clean verdict.
License
MIT © dir-ai
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