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[devcontainers]: Add docker/docker-agent config compatibility layer

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Description

Issue: [devcontainers]: Add docker/docker-agent config compatibility layer

Feature: devcontainers
Priority: high
Labels: devcontainers, high-priority, competitive

Description

Docker Engineering shipped docker/docker-agent 2 days ago — an official AI Agent Builder & Runtime that uses a container-based agent definition model. This is Docker entering daax's core territory. daax devcontainers should be importable/exportable to/from docker-agent format so that teams evaluating docker-agent can migrate to daax without rewriting their container configs.

Intel driver: docker/docker-agent (2026-04-05, 2 days old). Docker entering agent runtime space is the biggest competitive signal of the week.

What

Add a compatibility layer that:

  1. Parses docker-agent container configuration format
  2. Maps docker-agent agent definitions to daax devcontainer specs
  3. Exports daax devcontainer configs to docker-agent format

Why

Docker's brand recognition means teams will evaluate docker-agent first. If daax configs are compatible, onboarding from docker-agent is frictionless. Differentiation happens at the hawkeye + nanofuse layer, not the container definition layer.

Definition of Done

  • Can import a valid docker-agent YAML config and generate a daax devcontainer spec without manual edits
  • Can export a daax devcontainer spec that passes docker-agent validate (or equivalent)
  • Round-trip test: import → export → import produces identical configs
  • Integration test covers: image spec, env vars, volume mounts, port bindings, tool declarations
  • Documentation: migration guide from docker-agent to daax with 3 worked examples

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by locating the repository's devcontainer configuration handling and confirming the docker-agent configuration schema. Implement import and export coverage for image specs, environment variables, volume mounts, port bindings, and tool declarations. Define done with integration and round-trip tests, docker-agent validation, and a migration guide containing three worked examples.

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Assessment

Tech stack
docker, typescript
Domain
devops, tooling
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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