Hacker NewsMonday · September 21, 2026FREE

AX – Google’s Open Agentic Orchestrator

AX is presented as an open agentic orchestrator under the name "AX – Google's Open Agentic Orchestrator," linked from Hacker News to agentexecutor.io. The page's pitch is that a user declares an agentic task and AX runs it at scale: it sandboxes the task, wires up its workspace, fences its network, and, per the page, helps run billions of them per cluster. Users can either use a single task per agent or compose as many as the agent needs. The page demonstrates the workflow through a terminal session. A task.yaml file defines two resources with apiVersion ax.io/v1alpha1: a Workspace named golang with a git repo pointing at https://github.com/golang/go.git on branch "my-fix", and a Task named test referencing that workspace with the goal "Ensure that Go tool chain is available and is built from source" and debug set to true. Running ax apply -f task.yaml creates workspace.ax.io/golang and task.ax.io/test. The ax watch task test command shows the task moving from Phase: Pending at 10:42:01 to Phase: Running at 10:42:05 with WorkerIP 10.20.3.67, and ax get tasks lists test in namespace default in phase Running. The session then uses ax ssh to list /workspace, build the Go source, inspect processes (showing /usr/local/bin/ax-task-runner and a go build process), and create notes.txt, followed by ax suspend, ax resume, and ax delete task test.