Agent Infrastructure
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The Agentic Runtime Splits: Governed Runtimes and the Local Inference Server
StreamNative's Orca makes governance a property of the runtime instead of a layer over it. Base Compute's Superfluid gives one laptop a scheduler for several agents. The two edges of the stack the control-plane story left out.
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Agent Sprawl Has a Name — and the Open-Source Fix Arrived This Week
Three open-source tools landed in the first week of October 2026, each aimed at one named symptom of 'agent sprawl': Red Hat's Rossoctl for discovery, Tuskira's gateway for credentials, and LiteLLM's Moyai for cost. The remediation layer is now shipping as modular, self-hostable building blocks rather than a platform you wait for.
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The Agent Control Plane Goes Open Source: OpenClaw Enterprise and the Third Layer of the Stack
OpenClaw Enterprise launched September 29 as MIT-licensed, self-hostable control-plane software for fleets of persistent agents, built inside OpenAI and donated outward with Red Hat and NVIDIA contributing. The open question is whether the enterprise control plane ends up a product or a protocol.
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The Skill Standard: How a Markdown Folder Became the Portable API for Agent Capability
Agent skills began as a way to give Claude domain expertise and became an open, cross-vendor format for packaging capability: a folder with a SKILL.md file that runs on Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and a Java service alike.