kagent-dev

    kagent-dev/kagent

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    Apache-2.0
    4.1K stars
    875 forks
    4.1K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 3, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 4 days ago, with 216 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #63 in the weekly ranking the week of Mar 29, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a Kubernetes-native framework to build, deploy, and manage AI agents as custom resources within Kubernetes clusters.
    • Enables seamless integration of multiple LLM providers and Kubernetes tools with declarative YAML configurations for flexible and extensible AI agent workflows.
    • Use for automating DevOps tasks by deploying AI agents that interact with Kubernetes, Helm, Istio, and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
    • Use for developing AI-driven cloud-native applications that require real-time access to up-to-date information via agent memory and observability with OpenTelemetry tracing.
    • Use for creating customizable AI agents that leverage various LLM providers and MCP tools to extend Kubernetes capabilities in multi-cloud or hybrid environments.

    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

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    From the README

    kagent is a Kubernetes native framework for building AI agents. Kubernetes is the most popular orchestration platform for running workloads, and kagent makes it easy to build, deploy and manage AI agents in Kubernetes. The kagent framework is designed to be easy to understand and use, and to provide a flexible and powerful way to build and manage AI agents.

    The kagent documentation is available at kagent.dev/docs.

    Excerpt from the kagent-dev/kagent README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Sep 6: +6

    +656 stars over 85 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +6 on Sep 6.

    Forks

    875+180

    Open issues

    244+119

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