Hello Ninad, Hope you are doing well. Welcome and thank you for the initiative and email. Hope the documentation was good enough to set up the local environment.
In terms of starting points, You'd need to understand the distributed nature of asterixDB, along with roles and responsibilities of Node Controller and Cluster Controller(master). Please read asterixDB paper - https://asterix.ics.uci.edu/pub/AsterixDBOverview.pdf Hyracks (the framework that powers asterixDB, to understand how queries are planned and executed as jobs) - https://asterix.ics.uci.edu/pub/ICDE11_conf_full_690.pdf <https://asterix.ics.uci.edu/pub/ICDE11_conf_full_690.pdf> HTTP / Servlet layer- Some important module/paths to look into, asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/ asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/hyracks/bootstrap/ asterixdb/asterix-common/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/common/utils/ asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/api/http/server/ Metadata system (will be very useful for this project): asterixdb/asterix-metadata/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/metadata/MetadataManager.java asterixdb/asterix-metadata/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/metadata/entities/ Query execution pipeline: asterixdb/asterix-app/src/main/java/org/apache/asterix/app/translator/QueryTranslator.java Here's a paper that led us to this initiative - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00997 <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00997> Best, Suryaa On Tue, Mar 3, 2026 at 7:07 AM Ninad Kale <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi AsterixDB team, > > I'm Ninad, a third-year IT student at VIT Pune. I am interested in > ASTERIXDB-3695 – LLM Agent Protocols/Memory for GSoC 2026. > > I have prior open source contributions to LangChain DeepAgents (merged PR > #1197 — message queue system for inter-agent communication), Apache > Airflow, Dapr Agents, and Gemini CLI. I've also built a LangGraph-based > agent and have a Springer-accepted paper > <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13042-025-02838-z> on > NLP-based > text classification. The agent messaging and coordination work is directly > relevant to the MCP and A2A scope here. > > I am setting up the local environment now and starting to go through the > codebase. > Could you point me to the right components or existing issues to focus on > first to get oriented for this project? > > Thanks, > Ninad Kale > GitHub: https://github.com/1Ninad >
