Limitations and Workarounds

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Deployment Constraints

Local Coral Server

The reference Coral Server implementation is a standalone process that runs alongside your application. This mirrors typical MCP server deployment patterns, but may present challenges if your platform is constrained to a single process (e.g. no-code environments).

Workaround Options

• Single-process compatibility: In theory, Coral Server could be re-implemented in other languages or embedded within your application logic. This would require non-trivial effort.
• Secure tunnel exposure: Alternatively, you can expose the Coral Server via a secure public URL using tools like Awesome Tunneling. If you pursue this, ensure the server is only accessible to your agents and application.

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Managed Agent Deployment

During development, you manage agents directly and register them using the /devmode/ prefix in the MCP Server URL.

In production, Coral manages per-session deployment of agent containers to ensure data isolation. This is a standard practice, but introduces latency:

Applications that spin up fresh agent sessions per request will incur startup time equal to the slowest agent in the thread.

This is especially noticeable in ElizaOS or other session-heavy workflows.

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Optimisation Tips

• Use Slim Toolkit to reduce image size and speed up startup.
• Explore Docker checkpointing to pre-start agents during build time: Docker Checkpoint Docs. This requires preconfiguring runtime variables like connection strings.

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Early Adoption Considerations

Coral is a new protocol. Caution around adoption timelines and community maturity is understandable.

To reduce integration risk, Coral:

• Reuses existing open standards wherever possible
• Implements features entirely through MCP interfaces, making Coral agents compatible with other MCP-compliant tools

That said, Coral enables a graph-of-agents architecture that most frameworks are not yet optimised for. Many open-source agents today lack:

• Proper deployment-time handling (e.g. user data separation)
• Containerisation or runtime lifecycle controls

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Solution

Use the Coralizer CLI to adapt existing agents and tools into Coral-compatible deployments.

Coral helps bridge the early adoption gap by giving developers ergonomic tools to integrate incrementally, while maintaining long-term protocol alignment.