Compose and Dragons

What if we could create an entire role-playing game universe populated entirely by “intelligent” AI agents, each running in their own Docker container?
In this session, we’ll show you how to turn Docker Desktop into a full-fledged RPG simulation platform 🏰.
Using Docker Model Runner, Docker MCP Toolkit, MCP Gateway and Compose, we’ll deploy a full ecosystem where every character in the game becomes an autonomous AI agent:

• NPCs (Non-Player Characters): Every villager, merchant, or ally comes with their own personality and memory.
• Dungeon Monsters: Adversaries with adaptive behavior and tactical intelligence (well… not this time, they’ll just roll dice).
• Game Master (GM): An agent with a global view of the game, managing movement (and thus the dungeon map), battles, HP, and game rules (all thanks to MCP).

Through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) techniques, agents will share a collective memory, and A2A (Agent-to-Agent) protocol will enable character interactions.
We’ll show how Docker Compose orchestrates this swarm of agents, enabling simple and scalable deployment, e.g., spawn 5 young werewolves in the Whispering Hall.
A fun excuse to introduce attendees to:

• Multi-container architectures for AI agents using multiple LLMs
• Integrating Docker Model Runner with MCP (and especially the MCP Toolkit)
• Inter-agent communication patterns
• Show how a MCP gateway manages interaction between agents
• Managing persistence and shared memory with RAG