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ax

Kubectl-style orchestrator that runs sandboxed agent tasks from YAML manifests

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Apache-2.0
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Sep 2026
Last release
Sep 2026
Language
Go

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Overview

AX is a Go CLI and control plane that schedules agent workloads on Kubernetes through ax.io/v1alpha1 manifests (Task, Workspace, Model). Each task runs as a sandboxed actor on Agent Substrate, with Git repos, MCP servers and skills pre-wired. Tasks can be suspended and resumed, and `ax ssh` opens a shell in a running sandbox. The README warns of heavy development and likely breaking changes.

Who it is for: Platform engineers running many isolated agent workloads on Kubernetes

Strengths

  • kubectl-shaped CLI: apply, get, describe, watch, delete, plus suspend/resume and ssh
  • Declarative Workspace manifests pre-wire Git repos, MCP servers and skill packages
  • Checkpoint and resume of idle agent tasks via ax suspend and ax resume
  • Follows the active kube context, so one CLI can target multiple clusters

Weaknesses

  • README warns of heavy development and major breaking changes before a stable release
  • Requires a Kubernetes cluster with Agent Substrate installed first
  • Deploy needs Go, ko, kubectl and a container registry; no Docker or compose option
  • API is v1alpha1; the README shows only a Google Gemini model example

What it needs

  • Needs Kubernetes, Agent Substrate, Redis, ko, kubectl, container registry
  • Models: Google Gemini

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