katanemo

    katanemo/plano

    Plano is an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps. Smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails so you stay focused on your agents core logic.

    ai
    networking
    ai-gateway
    ai-gateway-support
    envoy
    envoyproxy
    gateway
    Rust
    Apache-2.0
    7.1K stars
    495 forks
    7.1K GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 4, 2026
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    Where it stands

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    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 11 days ago, with 42 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #43 in the weekly ranking the week of Dec 7, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides an AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic applications with smart LLM routing, observability, agent orchestration, and guardrails.
    • Enables dynamic, preference-based LLM routing and centralized guardrails outside core app logic, reducing maintenance and accelerating agentic app development.
    • Use for building scalable AI agent apps that require intelligent prompt routing and multi-LLM orchestration with minimal code changes.
    • Use for integrating and managing multiple LLM providers with alias and preference-based routing to experiment with models without redeploying apps.
    • Use for adding observability and governance to AI workflows with W3C-compatible tracing and metrics that plug into popular monitoring tools.

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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.

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    From the README

    Arch is a modular ai-native edge and AI gateway for agents.

    Arch handles the pesky low-level work in building agentic apps — like applying guardrails, clarifying vague user input, routing prompts to the right agent, and unifying access to any LLM. It’s a language and framework friendly infrastructure layer designed to help you build and ship agentic apps faster.

    AI demos are easy to hack. But once you move past a prototype, you’re stuck building and maintaining low-level plumbing code that slows down real innovation. For example:

    With Arch, you can move faster by focusing on higher-level objectives in a language and framework agnostic way. Arch was built by the contributors of Envoy Proxy with the belief that:

    Prompts are nuanced and opaque user requests, which require the same capabilities as traditional HTTP requests including secure handling, intelligent routing, robust observability, and integration with backend (API) systems to improve speed and accuracy for common agentic scenarios – all outside core application logic.*

    Jump to our docs to learn how you can use Arch to improve the speed, security and personalization of your GenAI apps.

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

    Daily snapshots

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    Forks

    495+11

    Open issues

    155+17

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