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Show HN: Orloj – agent infrastructure as code (YAML and GitOps)

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Why This Matters

Orloj introduces a standardized, infrastructure-like approach to managing multi-agent AI systems, addressing current industry challenges of ad-hoc deployment, lack of governance, and limited observability. Its YAML-based configuration and orchestration capabilities enable reliable, scalable, and secure AI agent operations in production environments, aligning AI management with established DevOps practices.

Key Takeaways

Orloj

Named after the Prague Orloj, an astronomical clock that has coordinated complex mechanisms for over 600 years.

An orchestration runtime for multi-agent AI systems.

Declare your agents, tools, and policies as YAML. Orloj schedules, executes, routes, and governs them so you can run multi-agent systems in production with the same operational rigor you expect from infrastructure.

Status: Orloj is under active development. APIs and resource schemas may change between minor versions before 1.0.

Why Orloj

Running AI agents in production today looks a lot like running containers before container orchestration: ad-hoc scripts, no governance, no observability, and no standard way to manage an agent fleet. Orloj provides:

Agents-as-Code -- declare agents, their models, tools, and constraints in version-controlled YAML manifests.

-- declare agents, their models, tools, and constraints in version-controlled YAML manifests. DAG-based orchestration -- pipeline, hierarchical, and swarm-loop topologies with fan-out/fan-in support.

-- pipeline, hierarchical, and swarm-loop topologies with fan-out/fan-in support. Model routing -- bind agents to OpenAI, Anthropic, Azure OpenAI, Ollama, and other endpoints. Switch providers without changing agent definitions.

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