  AGILE is a small gamma-ray astronomy satellite, with good spatial resolution,
excellent timing capabilities and an unprecedented large field of view (~1/5 of
the sky). It will be the next mission dedicated to high energy astrophysics in
the range 30 MeV-50 GeV, and will be launched in 2005. Pulsars are a major
topic of investigation of AGILE and, besides studying the small sample of known
objects, AGILE will offer the first possibility of detecting several young and
energetic radio pulsars that have been discovered since the end of the CGRO
mission. We provide an estimate of the expected number of detectable gamma-ray
pulsars and present AGILE capabilities for timing analysis with small counting
statistics, based on the analysis of data from simulations, from the EGRET
archive, and from radio pulsar catalogs.
