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Google open-sources AX, an orchestrator that scales to billions of agent tasks

Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator

AX is Google's newly open-sourced orchestrator for agentic workloads. It turns sandboxes, workspaces, network policies, and model configs into four declarative primitives. Built on Agent Substrate, it uses lightweight actors to suspend idle agents and resume them in under a second, scaling to billions of concurrent tasks per cluster. Workspaces accept plain-English goals and auto-provision toolchains. The code is on GitHub under Apache 2.0; the post doesn't mention a GA date or managed service.

Why it matters: Google open-sourced an agent orchestrator with declarative YAML for sandboxes, repos, and network rules, backed by a lightweight actor runtime. Directly useful for agent infra builders, hits all three HKR axes. Not scoring higher because it's fresh open source with no disclose...

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