google/ax
Google's open agentic orchestration runtime
About the project
A declarative orchestrator for running autonomous AI agent workloads in a cluster, using a Kubernetes-like model with Task, Workspace, Gateway, and Model manifests. It sandboxes agents, pre-wires their environment, and restricts network access.
Useful for
- Launch an agentic task with a sandboxed workspace and pre-cloned Git repo via ax apply
- Restrict an agent's outbound traffic to an explicit host allowlist with a Gateway manifest
- Shell into a running agent with ax ssh to inspect or debug it
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 395 stars so far today, about 1,158 expected by the end of the day. The usual pace is 2 per day, so that's 501× as much.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 3 per day.
- The spike has held for 3 days in a row — not a one-off blip.
- GitHub Trending today: #5, +2,324 stars.
- GitHub Trending Go today: #2, +2,324 stars.
- Hacker News: “AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator” — 647 points, 1 day ago.
- About 113 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @dorucioclea (311 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 6,799
- Today
- 395 · ≈ 1,158 by evening
- Forks
- 322
- Issues and pull requests
- 357
- Watchers
- 32
- Language
- Go
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Latest release
- v0.3.0 · September 20, 2026
- Created
- March 30, 2026
- Last push
- September 20, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Hacker News discussions
- AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator647 points, September 20, 2026
- Google/ax: Google's open agentic orchestrator6 points, September 20, 2026
- Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator5 points, September 20, 2026
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- September 22, 2026GitHub Trending today: #5, +2,324 stars; GitHub Trending Go today: #2, +2,324 stars
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