AX by Google
The open-source runtime for running AI agents at scale
Details
- External ID
- 1257794
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stitch 3.0 by Google
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 22, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9378608082103913
- Tags
- Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence, GitHub
- Fetched at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 24, 2026, 4:21 a.m.
Description
AX is an open-source runtime for running AI agents in production. Declare a task and AX gives it an isolated sandbox, prepares its repos, MCP servers and skills, controls network access, and manages models and secrets. Idle agents can suspend while waiting for models, tools or humans, then resume in under a second — with an architecture designed to scale to billions of agent tasks per cluster.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Model & infra
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- agent runtime framework for developers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building a production agent execution runtime with microVM or container sandboxing, checkpoint/resume capabilities, and network fencing requires advanced systems engineering and cluster orchestration expertise.
What it would actually take: AX is built on Go and Kubernetes, integrating container/microVM virtualization (such as Firecracker or gVisor) to isolate dynamic code execution. It implements custom Kubernetes CRDs/controllers, Linux namespace and iptables-based network fencing, memory state checkpointing (CRIU or microVM snapshots) to suspend and resume idle agents, and secure secret/MCP protocol proxying at cluster scale.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #36 of 327 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Eve · hn · 2026-04-10 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- OpenSOP, We got tired of agents lying to us, so we built them a harness · hn · 2026-06-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Agent Mode on Arena · ph · 2026-06-05 · 188 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Axiomeer · hn · 2026-02-03 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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