Akuity launches Agentic Control Plane to govern AI agents in production pipelines

The control plane routes every request an agent makes through an authentication step that identifies it as the specific person who connected the agent, according to Akuity. The company said no shared service account is involved, and that the user's existing permissions travel with the connection across every instance and cluster Akuity manages, so no separate credentials have to be issued or rotated. A policy layer sits above the permission check and can block sensitive production actions the user would otherwise be cleared to perform.

Akuity said teams are writing more code than they can safely ship, and that agents are already operating inside production environments whether or not anyone sanctioned them. Many of those agents connect through open-source MCP servers, which Akuity said hand over raw access with no identity carried through and no audit trail of what the agent touched.

What agents reach through the control plane is the operational record of the pipeline itself. Akuity said that covers deployment history, cluster health and change lineage across a customer's fleet, down to the commit behind any given deployment. Engineers can put one question to an agent and get an answer covering every cluster rather than checking each in turn. An agent aimed at an empty repository can stand up the environments and promotion rules for a new service in an afternoon, then promote the release from a chat window, with the same approval gates applying whether a person or an agent made the request. Akuity's On-Call Agent takes the harder cases, pulling logs and recent changes to suggest a fix.

Major League Baseball is an early user. Michael Goodness, a principal DevOps engineer at the league, said the control plane surfaced more than 100 degraded applications within hours of being switched on, then traced a systemic issue in one project to its root cause in under 10 minutes.

"That's exactly the workflow we wanted: Identify the problem, tell us if it's systemic and hand us the fix," Goodness said. "This is already bringing value to the team, and we are looking to expand its adoption."

Akuity co-founder and Chief Executive Hong Wang said agents have moved past writing code and into how infrastructure changes get delivered and promoted to production. He said the winners of the next phase will not be whoever adopts AI fastest, but whoever gives their agents a reliable path to do that work.

Akuity was founded by the creators of Argo CD and Kargo, the open-source projects for continuous delivery and environment promotion on Kubernetes. Lead Edge Capital led a $20 million Series A round for the company in 2022. AI automations landed on the platform last September, and Akuity said on-call engineers are never paged for the Kubernetes application incidents the software catches and fixes on its own.

Editor's Summary

Akuity has released Agentic Control Plane and an MCP server that let AI agents query and act on its software delivery platform under an individual user's existing permissions, with a policy layer that can block sensitive production actions. Major League Baseball, an early user, said the tool surfaced more than 100 degraded applications within hours of being switched on. The launch targets agents already running in production, which Akuity says often connect through open-source MCP servers that carry no identity or audit trail.