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Autonomy is largely accepted as a major distinctive characteristic of agents with respect of other computation models. This is one of the main reasons why the agent community has been investigating from different perspectives constraints and the tight relationship between autonomy and constraints. In this paper, we take the software engineering standpoint and we exploit the results of the research on constraint programming to provide the developer with a set of tools for the realization of constraint-based multiagent systems. In detail, the purpose of this paper is twofold. In the first part it presents a model that regards multiagent systems in terms of constraint programming concepts. This model comprises an abstract picture of what a multiagent system is from the point of view of constraint programming and a language for modeling agents as solvers of constraint satisfaction and optimization problems. The second part of this paper describes an implemented toolkit that exploits this model to support the developer in programming and deploying constraint-based multiagent systems. This toolkit consists of a compiler and a runtime platform.