Google open-sources AX, a Kubernetes-style orchestrator built for agentic workloads
rakyll · x · 2026-09-20
Google engineer rakyll unveiled AX (github.com/google/ax), positioned as Google's open agentic orchestrator and runtime, already at 2k stars.
Key points:
- Kubernetes reinvented for agent workloads: adds statefulness and fast resumption, with declarative YAML task definitions familiar to K8s users
- Runs on Agent Substrate for sandboxed execution: sandboxes tasks, wires workspaces, fences network access, and targets billions of autonomous agent tasks per cluster
- Still v1alpha1, with breaking changes expected before a stable release
- The team also plans a compute runtime scaling to billions of agents, claiming 10-20x more sandboxes on existing setups
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