AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator
AX is an open-source control plane for running agent tasks in isolated, stateful sandboxes. Its declarative primitives cover tasks, workspaces, network policy, and model configuration; it builds on Agent Substrate for pausing and resuming workloads.
The project’s appeal is also its operational cost: the quickstart expects Kubernetes, a container registry, and an Agent Substrate API, so it is infrastructure for orchestrating fleets—not a lightweight local-agent wrapper. The site’s scale claims are project claims, not independent benchmarks. HN commenters debated whether that machinery solves a real deployment problem and how much to infer about Google’s long-term backing.