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+# Cocoon Agent
+
+An _agent_ runs on a computer and runs tests reserved for it by the Cocoon
+backend. It may or may not have physical devices attached to it.
+
+## Starting an agent
+
+Agent has several subcommands:
+
+`run` command runs a single task. Here's how you run it:
+
+```sh
+dart bin/agent.dart run --task-name={TASK_NAME}
+```
+
+It runs the task at the currently synced version of Flutter.
+
+`ci` command runs the agent in _continuous integration_ mode. It continuously
+asks the Cocoon backend for available tasks, syncs Flutter to the desired
+revision and runs the task. Use it like this:
+
+```sh
+dart bin/agent.dart ci
+```
+
+## Setting up a Mac agent
+
+Follow Flutter's [setup guide](https://flutter.io/setup/). Make sure Flutter
+runs successfully for the kind of test scenarios you intend to use the agent
+for. For example, if you plan to run tests on a real Android device, make sure
+there _is_ an Android device attached, the Android SDK installed and you are
+able to run one of the sample Flutter apps on the device.
+
+## Agent configuration
+
+### Creating agent and acquiring auth tokens
+
+Pick a good ID for the agent. If there are existing agents performing the
+same set of tasks give it the same ID with a different number. For example, if
+there are "mac1" and "mac2", and you are adding another Mac build agent, call it
+"mac3". If you are adding an agent that doesn't fit within any of the existing
+groups, pick a new ID and start numbering beginning from 1, e.g. "linux1".
+
+Read [Creating an agent](https://github.com/flutter/cocoon#creating-an-agent)
+about how to create the agent and acquire an authentication token to connect it
+to Cocoon.
+
+To authenticate with Firebase read go/flutter-cocoon.
+
+At the end of this exercise you should have an agent ID, a Cocoon auth token
+and a Firebase auth token.
+
+### config.yaml
+
+You will need to enter information acquired in the previous step into a
+`config.yaml` file. See the
+[sample config file](https://github.com/flutter/cocoon/blob/master/agent/config.sample.yaml)
+that documents all parameters in detail.