Google Ax
Google's open agentic orchestration runtime
Google's open agentic orchestration runtime (March 2026, 12K stars). Infrastructure for agent apps — a signal that big tech is moving into agent orchestration.
AI agents that code, operate computers, and get work done.
Key features
- Declarative orchestrator running agent workloads at scale in a cluster
- Tasks run as sandboxed actors on Agent Substrate with CPU/memory limits
- Three primitives: Task, Workspace, and Model, declared as YAML manifests
- kubectl-like CLI with apply, watch, ssh, suspend, and resume commands
Good for
- Platform teams running billions of autonomous agent tasks
- Isolating untrusted agent code with checkpoints and resume
Stack & tags
Goagent-orchestrationkubernetessandboxdeclarativeyamlgo
Quick start
go install github.com/google/ax/cmd/ax@latestFrom the project README on GitHub.
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