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AX

Declarative Kubernetes-style orchestrator for sandboxed AI agent tasks

  • Agent frameworks and tools
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What it is

AX runs autonomous agent workloads on a Kubernetes cluster using YAML manifests for Tasks, Workspaces, and Models, built on Agent Substrate for sandboxed execution. Workspaces come set up with Git repositories, MCP servers, and skill packages, while tasks get CPU and memory limits, checkpoint-based suspend and resume, and shell access for debugging. Platform teams running large numbers of agents in isolation drive it through a kubectl-like CLI. The project is in early development and expects breaking changes.

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Stars
14,004 GitHub stars.
14,004

Forks
726
Commits
658
Contributors
22
Language
Go
License
Apache-2.0
Last commit
Oct 19, 2026
On GitHub since
March 2026
First release
May 2026
Platforms
Linux, CLI, self-hosted
Self-hostable
Yes
Tags
  • containers
  • agent-sandbox
  • ai-agents
  • container-orchestration

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What people are saying

Updated Oct 21, 2026
  • Hacker NewsAX – Google’s Open Agentic OrchestratorSep 20, 2026 · 666 points · 300 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Ax: a Kubernetes-like orchestrator for agents, from Google why something new? because agents have unique demands. They’re stateful, long lived, don’t…”Sep 20, 2026 · 105 likes · 8 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsGoogle's Open Agentic OrchestratorSep 20, 2026 · 5 points · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsGoogle/ax: Google's open agentic orchestratorSep 20, 2026 · 6 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsAx, Google's new highly distributed agent executorMay 28, 2026 · 2 points · 1 comment (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Hacker NewsGoogle's open source distributed agent runtimeMay 21, 2026 · 3 points · 0 comments (opens Hacker News in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“google/ax: Google's open agentic orchestration runtime #devopsish”Sep 22, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“interesting drop by @rakyll.org (at Google) over the weekend. rethinking K8s for agents agentexecutor.io an open runtime for sandboxes.”Sep 21, 2026 · 2 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Just stumbled on this. Google quietly shipped an agent execution runtime. Resumable by default, Kubernetes-native, full audit trail. They're not betting on…”Sep 21, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator View Article | Discussion + AI Summary Summary of HN discussion 🧵👇”Sep 21, 2026 · 1 like · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“And my dumb ass had to compare an AI Harness to K8s and lo and behold... Google just figured out a way to make workloads out of it all agentexecutor.io”Sep 25, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Another orchestrator promising to tame agent chaos. The real question: does it survive contact with production, or just demos well?”Sep 24, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“GitHub - google/ax: Google's open agentic orchestrator”Sep 21, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Poking a little around the edges of these efforts, it's cool to see Kubernetes folks building around this. And Google open sourcing (one of) their versions…”Sep 21, 2026 · 0 likes · 1 reply (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator view on hacker news”Sep 21, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator”Sep 21, 2026 · 1 like · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“AX reads like a control plane first: sandboxing, CPU and memory limits, host allowlists, model credentials, and ssh into the sandbox. That is the real…”Oct 3, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Google's ax hit 10.3k GitHub stars in 6 months: an agent orchestrator for sandboxed, network-fenced agent tasks at cluster scale, Kubernetes-style. Google's…”Sep 25, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator”Sep 22, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)
  • Bluesky“Google released AX, a declarative control plane that sandboxes AI agent tasks and can scale to billions of concurrent sessions.”Sep 21, 2026 · 0 likes · 0 replies (opens Bluesky in a new tab)