Kubernetes Creators Build Cloud-Native Agent Harness

🔥 What happened Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda – the minds behind Kubernetes – pivoted Stacklok to agent infrastructure. Their new open-source project Mecatl decouples the agent loop from tool execution, session state, and client. 💡 Why it matters Today's coding agents like Claude Code run locally on desktops – with all the scaling, isolation, and governance headaches that entails. Mecatl applies Kubernetes principles to agents: the loop runs as a cloud application, sensitive operations like bash and tool calls are isolated. Stacklok raised $17.5M Series A. ⚡ Our take Finally someone treats agents like infrastructure instead of toys. If this works, desktop harnesses become as obsolete as manual server management.