CLRK, an open-source agent runtime with gVisor and MitM guardrails
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TL;DR: we built a framework-agnostic agent runtime that uses gVisor for isolation and runs on k8s. It’s open-source under AGPLv3Recently we’ve been working on a customer support “AI assistant” - essentially an interactive knowledge base/L1 support but with an option to touch resources that belong to a customer it’s talking to. We found existing tools to be lacking in these aspects:1. Fully intercepted i/o. We wanted to trace out LLM calls as well as any other networking calls attempted by the harness so that guardrails and audit trails apply to all current and future systems uniformly. Nobody’s agent can accidentally make raw database calls or send PII data to an overseas LLM provider.2. Coherent API and framework agnostic. There’re a lot of frameworks out there that do similar things in slightly different way and most we found had telemetry, guardrails and other tooling tightly bound into the framework. We wanted something with an infrastructure-first approach because we think it’s a more flexible way to compose such systems.3. k8s compatible runtime. We run part of our stack on k8s and know it well so we wanted to take advantage of this if we could.We searched for an existing solution, but especially with Daytona going closed sourced recently, there were no options we could find that were open-source and met our needs, so we built one. A more in-depth design writeup can be found here: https://apoxy.dev/blog/enter-clrkQuestions, FRs, hot takes or funny insults are welcome!
HN · launched Jul 7, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent execution sandboxes · 137 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Implementing a secure multi-tenant agent runtime combining gVisor sandboxing, man-in-the-middle network inspection guardrails, and Kubernetes container orchestration requires specialized systems and security engineering.
What it would actually take: The system requires a Kubernetes operator/controller that dynamically provisions ephemeral pods backed by gVisor (runsc) runtime handlers, paired with eBPF or an integrated TLS-intercepting transparent proxy (like Envoy or custom Go proxy) to inspect agent traffic in real time. The hardest parts involve enforcing strict kernel sandboxing while maintaining low invocation latency and implementing MitM TLS termination without breaking agent network protocols or opening security holes.
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