agentc inspect

agentc inspect parses your agent.acl manifest and resolves it into a fully expanded context. No pipeline stages run and no files are generated. It is the fastest way to verify that your manifest is structurally valid and that all values resolve as expected.

agentc inspect [CONTEXT] [OPTIONS]

Arguments

Options

What it shows

By default, the command prints the resolved context: the manifest after all build-time processing has been applied.

• locals values are substituted wherever they are referenced in string fields.
• runtime(ENV_VAR, default) fields display their compile-time default value. The environment variable itself is not read during inspection.
• secret(runtime(...)) values are not read or displayed.
• Provider and tool configurations are shown in their resolved form.

With --raw, the command prints the raw deserialized manifest struct before resolution. This is useful for checking that runtime() and secret() calls were parsed correctly.

When to use it

Use agentc inspect to verify your manifest before starting a build. It catches structural errors and lets you confirm that interpolation, defaults, and field references are wired up correctly, without triggering any tool transforms or code generation.

It is also helpful for understanding what defaults a deployed binary will fall back to for each runtime() field.

Example

agentc inspect

agentc inspect ./agents/support