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Show HN: Klaw.sh – Kubernetes for AI agents

https://github.com/klawsh/klaw.sh
25•eftalyurtseven•7h ago
Hi everyone,

I run a generative AI infra company, unified API for 600+ models. Our team started deploying AI agents for our marketing and lead gen ops: content, engagement, analytics across multiple X accounts.

OpenClaw worked fine for single agents. But at ~14 agents across 6 accounts, the problem shifted from "how do I build agents" to "how do I manage them."

Deployment, monitoring, team isolation, figuring out which agent broke what at 3am. Classic orchestration problem.

So I built klaw, modeled on Kubernetes: Clusters — isolated environments per org/project Namespaces — team-level isolation (marketing, sales, support) Channels — connect agents to Slack, X, Discord Skills — reusable agent capabilities via a marketplace

CLI works like kubectl: klaw create cluster mycompany klaw create namespace marketing klaw deploy agent.yaml

I also rewrote from Node.js to Go — agents went from 800MB+ to under 10MB each.

Quick usage example: I run a "content cluster" where each X account is its own namespace. Agent misbehaving on one account can't affect others. Adding a new account is klaw create namespace [account] + deploy the same config. 30 seconds.

The key differentiator vs frameworks like CrewAI or LangGraph: those define how agents collaborate on tasks. klaw operates one layer above — managing fleets of agents across teams with isolation and operational tooling. You could run CrewAI agents inside klaw namespaces.

Happy to answer questions.

Comments

f0e4c2f7•56m ago
Ha! This is great. I've been waiting for someone to make this.

Giving an LLM a computer makes it way more powerful, giving it a kubernetes cluster should extend that power much further and naturally fits well with the way LLMs work.

I think this abstraction can scale for a good long while. Past this what do you give the agent? Control of a whole Data Center I guess.

I'm not sure if it will replace openclaw all together since kubernetes is kind of niche and scary to a lot of people. But I bet for the most sophisticated builders this will become quite popular, and who knows maybe far beyond that cohort too.

Congrats on the launch!

eftalyurtseven•46m ago
Thanks! The "Kubernetes is scary" point is fair, that's why the CLI is designed to feel intuitive even if you've never touched kubectl. There's also a controller agent that manages the whole cluster from plain English.

On "what comes after", I think it's agents managing other agents. An AI SRE that watches load and spins up new agents automatically. The cluster/namespace model was designed with that direction in mind.

And yeah, not trying to replace OpenClaw, different layer.

OpenClaw defines what an agent does, klaw manages where and how many run. Complementary.

MrDarcy•52m ago
Is this intended to deploy onto k8s?
eftalyurtseven•45m ago
No, klaw is standalone. It borrows the mental model from Kubernetes (clusters, namespaces, declarative config) but doesn't depend on it. Single binary, runs anywhere.
dariusj18•45m ago
In first read I thought this was an operator for k8s, but it is just comparing itself.to k8s as an orchestration system.
eftalyurtseven•42m ago
Correct, it's not a k8s operator. Standalone binary, zero dependencies. Just uses the same mental model because clusters and namespaces map really well to multi-team agent management.
benatkin•42m ago
In case anyone is interested because "Kubernetes for agents" sounds innovative: https://medium.com/p/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04?source...

Also, Kubernetes and Gas Town are open source, but this is not.

Edit: the Medium link doesn't jump down to the highlighted phrase. It's "'It will be like kubernetes, but for agents,' I said."

eftalyurtseven•39m ago
It is open source: https://github.com/klawsh/klaw.sh

Also worth noting, Gas Town and klaw solve different problems. Gas Town orchestrates coding agents on a codebase. klaw orchestrates operational agents (social media, support, sales) across teams and platforms. Different layer entirely.

benatkin•38m ago
Neither in letter (OSI) nor in spirit...
simbleau•33m ago
I don’t quite get what makes it Kubernetes for AI agents. Is the idea to pool hardware together to distribute AI agents tasking? Is the idea to sandbox agents in a safe runtime with configuration management? Is the idea something else entirely? Both? I couldn’t figure it out by the README alone.
eftalyurtseven•31m ago
Mostly the second, plus fleet management. Each agent runs in an isolated namespace with its own config, channels, and skills. You manage them declaratively like you would pods, but the unit of work is an AI agent instead of a container. The Kubernetes analogy is about the operational model: clusters for org isolation, namespaces for team isolation, declarative deploys, central monitoring. Not about hardware scheduling. I'll improve the README to make this clearer, good feedback.
fudged71•9m ago
Is there any current solution elsewhere for hardware scheduling?
eftalyurtseven•1m ago
Yes, klaw has a controller-node architecture. You join machines to a cluster with klaw node join and deploy agents to specific nodes.

I added distributed agent management functionality

ed_mercer•13m ago
For us, we actually moved away from k8s to dedicated VMs on Proxmox for our agents. We initially had a containerized environment manager running in k8s, but found that VMs give you things containers struggle with: full desktop environments with X11 for GUI automation, persistent state across sessions and dedicated resources per agent. Each agent gets their own Debian VM with a complete OS, which makes it much easier to run tools like xdotool and browser automation that don't play well in containers.
eftalyurtseven•4m ago
Makes sense, if your agents need full desktop and GUI automation VMs are the way to go. klaw is more on the headless side, agents talking to APIs, Slack, X, that kind of thing, so the lightweight binary model works. How many agents are you running on Proxmox?

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