AgentRun
open-source, Self-improving Managed Agents
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We (GREP.AI, YC F26) are open-sourcing AgentRun and turning it into a full managed agents platform. Read more about it in this post: https://agentrun.ai/blog/introducing-agentrun-run-smarter-ag....It includes what we originally built for our own agent harness:- Self-improving agents - Web-grounded workflows - A range of sandboxes and computer environments - Thousands of tools and integrations - Detailed analytics on how your agents behaveYou can bring your own agent. AgentRun works with Pi, Claude Agents, Codex, OpenCode, and any other harness that supports ACP.You can self-host it (see 1-click install on Render) with an OpenRouter key, or try the hosted version at console.agentrun.ai.We’d love feedback, especially on the architecture (see README), or anything we may be missing to make it useful to you.
HN · launched Nov 12, 2026 · 135 upvotes (top 8%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent development platforms · 598 launches, 24 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial A managed agent platform with a UI, orchestration, and tool integrations is largely vibe-codeable. However, the 'self-improving' and web-grounded features need real evaluation infrastructure, retrieval quality, and production-grade reliability that are harder to get right.
What it would actually take: The stack would be a web frontend, an agent orchestration layer (for example LangGraph or a custom loop), a sandboxed tool-execution environment, and a search or retrieval backend. The hard parts are an evaluation and feedback loop for self-improvement, reliable multi-tenant sandboxing and scaling, and tuning of retrieval and grounding, which requires ML and infrastructure expertise.
Discussion
16 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Claude Code, codealong, sudarshana
Concerns raised: Running agents on subscriptions is expensive, OSS console UI is underdeveloped, AI UI/UX design still immature
Feature requests: Support for subscription-based harnesses like Claude Code, MCP support, Add data sources such as savvyiq, SSO support, Better OSS console UI
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1438 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #211 of 1439 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 374 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Open Agents · ph · 2026-04-14 · 161 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Agent Action Runtime · ph · 2026-09-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Open_SwarmForce · ph · 2026-10-26 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Omnara · hn · 2026-10-21 · 112 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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