---
type: entity
subtype: tool
title: "Agent Zero"
description: "A front-end Cole hooks the agent army into (as an API endpoint) to get chat and conversation history."
resource: "https://studio.ottomator.ai"
tags: [frontend, live-agent-studio, local-agents, deployment, cole-built]
videos: [build-an-army-of-ai-agents-on-autopilot-with-archon-heres-how, deploying-billions-of-ai-agents-is-easier-than-you-think, the-glow-up-every-ai-agent-needs]
created: 2026-07-21
updated: 2026-07-21
---

# Agent Zero

Agent Zero is a platform Cole built to give any locally-run agent an instant front-end: "my platform I built for you on the live agent Studio to instantly have a front end for any agent that you run locally" ([0:03:21] of the deploying-billions video). The pitch is that the hard, unglamorous part of shipping an agent, the chat UI, conversation history, and hosting, is handled for you: "imagine being able to build and run your AI agents locally and then instantly being able to hook it into a front end for free no complicated setup and no thirdparty hosting required that is what Agent Zero offers you" ([0:01:07] of the glow-up video).

## How Cole uses it

Agent Zero is the front-end half of Cole's frontend-agnostic pattern: the agent runs locally and exposes an API endpoint, and Agent Zero consumes that endpoint to render chat and persist conversation history. In the Archon agent-army build he wires the whole system into it: "I have that hooked into my agent zero application which I've covered on my channel previously it's a way for you to connect any local agent into a front end" ([0:04:52] of the Archon video). The integration surface is deliberately tiny, Cole notes there are "only four things that you have to give ... to Agent Zero to make it so that you can instantly start talking to your agent with this front end" ([0:07:38]), which keeps any backend agent decoupled from its UI.

Beyond local testing, Cole uses it as a deployment on-ramp: after validating an agent through Agent Zero he moves on to hosting the front-end (for example on Render), so the same tool spans prototype chat and production deployment.

## Realizes

- [Frontend-Agnostic Agents](../../concepts/frontend-agnostic-agent.md) - decouple the agent backend from any specific UI so the same agent can power any frontend.
- [Agent as an API Endpoint](../../concepts/agent-as-api-endpoint.md) - wrapping an agent in a web API turns it into a deployable service any frontend can call; the contract Agent Zero consumes.

## Works with

- [Live Agent Studio](./live-agent-studio.md) - Cole's community-driven open-source AI agent platform that hosts Agent Zero.
- [Render](./render.md) - the cloud deployment platform Cole moves the front-end to after local validation.
- [Archon](./archon.md) - Cole's open-source agent that builds agents; he wires the agent army into Agent Zero.

## Related

- [Agent Deployment](../../concepts/agent-deployment.md) - getting agents to production with a provider-agnostic, cost-predictable host.
- [Agent Security](../../concepts/agent-security.md) - securing the endpoint the front-end connects to.
- [Memory Systems](../../concepts/memory-systems.md) - the conversation history Agent Zero persists across sessions and users.
- [Context Engineering](../../concepts/context-engineering.md) - managing what each hooked-in agent carries between turns.

## Sources

- [Deploying Billions of AI Agents is Easier than You Think](../../sources/deploying-billions-of-ai-agents-is-easier-than-you-think.md) - "[0:03:21] how to use Agent Zero which is my platform I built for you on the live agent Studio to instantly have a front end for any agent that you run locally"
- [The GLOW-UP Every AI Agent Needs](../../sources/the-glow-up-every-ai-agent-needs.md) - "[0:01:07] imagine being able to build and run your AI agents locally and then instantly being able to hook it into a front end for free no complicated setup and no thirdparty hosting required that is what Agent Zero offers you"
- [The GLOW-UP Every AI Agent Needs](../../sources/the-glow-up-every-ai-agent-needs.md) - "[0:07:38] these are the only four things that you have to give... to Agent Zero to make it so that you can instantly start talking to your agent with this front end"
- [Build an ARMY of AI Agents on Autopilot with Archon, Here's How](../../sources/build-an-army-of-ai-agents-on-autopilot-with-archon-heres-how.md) - "[0:04:52] I have that hooked into my agent zero application which I've covered on my channel previously it's a way for you to connect any local agent into a front end"
