---
name: get-agent
description: "The getAgent entry point to the FDC3 JavaScript API, published as @qcomp/fdc3-get-agent. Use it when an app connects to a desktop agent through the getAgent function rather than importing the main API package directly."
---

# FDC3 getAgent entry point

@qcomp/fdc3-get-agent 3.0.0-beta.1 — FDC3 getAgent entry point.

## What this package provides

The npm registry description for this package, verbatim at build time:

> Contains the main entry point for the Financial Desktop Connectivity and Collaboration Consortium (FDC3) JavaScript API, via the `getAgent` function.

## When to use this

- Your app obtains its desktop agent connection by calling getAgent.
- You are choosing between the getAgent entry point and the main @qcomp/fdc3 package.
- You are writing the connection bootstrap for an FDC3-enabled app.

## Install

~~~sh
npm install @qcomp/fdc3-get-agent@3.0.0-beta.1
~~~

## Provenance

Version, description, tarball and repository were read from https://registry.npmjs.org/ at build time for
this qcompute.dev demonstrator host. The display name and usage list above are authored for the
demonstrator; the registry quotation is not. The package's own documentation is at https://fdc3.finos.org/.
Tarball: https://registry.npmjs.org/@qcomp/fdc3-get-agent/-/fdc3-get-agent-3.0.0-beta.1.tgz