google/ax
Agent Executor (AX) is Google's open agentic orchestration runtime
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Where it stands
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Ranks #158 of 2,794 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 6%).
3 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 27 days ago, with 23 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #99 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 27, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a distributed agent runtime that manages agentic loops, execution state, and communication between local and remote actors.
- Ensures reliability with native support for execution resumption, failure recovery, and consistent state management via a single-writer architecture and event logging.
- Use for building scalable, fault-tolerant multi-agent systems that require dynamic isolated execution across distributed environments.
- Use for deploying and managing autonomous long-running agents and tools on Kubernetes with seamless recovery and auditing capabilities.
- Use for integrating custom remote agents and tools into a unified runtime that supports resumable conversations and event replay for client synchronization.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
AX, short for Agent eXecutor, is a distributed agent runtime. It provides a runtime that coordinates agentic loops, manages executions with event logging, and communicates with both local and remote actors. AX is designed for reliability, with native support for recovery and execution resumption, even in complex distributed setups.
Watch our demo to see AX works when deployed on Agent Substrate.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+12,132 stars over 86 days across 20 snapshot days; best day +1,478 on Sep 23.
Forks
732+623
Open issues
90+51
Compared with peers in Backend
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| shiyu-coder/Kronos | 43.2K | +2.4K | 75 | — |
| google/ax | 14.0K | +0 | 75 | 27 days ago |
| Category median | 43.9K | +4.0K | 75 | — |
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