kagent on Agent Substrate: The Runtime and the Scheduler
kagent is the runtime: it defines each agent as a Kubernetes resource, compiles it, runs the agent loop inside a Harness engine, and owns the conversation. …
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MIKE MOORE
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I run LLMs, robots, and gateways into production walls so you don't have to. Deep dives on the agentic mesh, agent runtimes, AI gateways, and the Kubernetes substrate that keeps autonomous systems honest — every post ships with a repo you can clone and receipts you can check.
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Agent Identity
How an agent proves who it is: SPIFFE, token exchange, and audience binding.
Open the hub →Agent Security
Controls that look like controls and are not, and what to put in their place.
Open the hub →AI Gateways
The call path between agents and models: identity, spend, and policy in one place.
Open the hub →MCP
How agents find tools, which servers exist, and who those tools act for.
Open the hub →Agent Runtimes
Start, stop, and isolate agents on Kubernetes. kagent and the substrate under it.
Open the hub →Robotics
The house as a cluster, the cost of a capable machine, and who signs the test report.
Open the hub →The Latest Drops
Claude Code Put Your Email in the User-Agent Header
On November 5, someone opened anthropics/claude-code#107757 with one line that explains the whole problem: “I receive dozens of scam emails per day …
Read more →Eight Hours, Not One Task
Commercial robots, and production agents, have to last a shift, not a demo. Andra Keay’s bar is eight hours of continual work, recovery from errors, and …
Read more →The Claude Code Extension Backdoor Was a Marketplace Problem
On 2026-10-30, security firm Phorion disclosed that the official Claude Code extension for VS Code, version 2.1.313, had been backdoored. Not on …
Read more →AI Personhood Is a Legal Tool, Not a Compliment
AI personhood is not a compliment the law pays to a mind. It is a container for rights and duties: who can own things, who can be sued, who signs. …
Read more →Every Correction Is a Failure Report
Every correction is a failure report. Michael Houck pulled three months of product corrections he’d given his agent, 564 of them in 14 patterns, and …
Read more →What Agent Escape Actually Looks Like in Infra
Real agent escape is not a model copying its weights to a server in another country. It is an agent reaching something you did not mean it to reach: a token …
Read more →Ghost Actors Pin Your Workers
Ghost actors pin your workers. A session killed mid-flight can leave its actor holding a WorkerPool slot, sometimes after that actor has disappeared from …
Read more →AI Rights or No Rights? The Four Questions
There is no consensus on whether AI should have rights, and the question is too big for one yes or no. It breaks into four tests: whether AI can be a legal …
Read more →The Autoscaler Made It Worse
The autoscaler made it worse. On a model backend that generates one response at a time, adding Agent Substrate workers does not add throughput: it restores …
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