Show HN: Recursant, "Istio for agents", is now open source

Category: infrastructure

Tags: agentic-mesh, ai-governance, kubernetes

Score: 7.3/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Recursant is an open-source agentic mesh platform that provides governance, security, compliance, and observability for AI agents communicating across enterprise environments, acting as "Istio for AI agents." It features a control plane for policy management and a data plane sidecar that mediates inter-agent traffic with mTLS and the A2A protocol, enabling runtime governance without modifying existing agent code. The project is technically sophisticated and well-documented but currently has no community traction, limiting its utility to early adopters.

Target audience: devops, platform engineers, AI engineers

Repository: https://github.com/ajensenwaud/recursant · Python · MIT

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