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Suspend & Resume Stateful Agents: kagent on Agent Substrate with kind
Suspend & Resume Stateful Agents: kagent on Agent Substrate with kind By Sebastian Maniak Agent sessions are bursty. A user asks a question, the agent …
agentgateway Standalone: A Cost & Tokenomics Dashboard in One Command
Introduction You’re routing LLM traffic through a gateway. But do you actually know what it costs? Not the rough monthly invoice from your provider — the …
Do AgentGateway Tool Modes and Headroom Stack? Measuring Two Token-Saving Layers Together
In a previous post I showed that Enterprise agentgateway can cut your LLM bill by changing how GitHub’s MCP tools are presented to the model — its …
GitHub MCP Token Economics: Why Search Mode Cuts Your LLM Bill by ~60%
Every time an LLM talks to an MCP server, it has to be told what tools exist. That tool catalog — the JSON schema of every tool, its parameters, and …
Running agentgateway on Proxmox (LXC): the Everything MCP server end-to-end
Running agentgateway on Proxmox (LXC): the Everything MCP server end-to-end Date: June 2026 Author: Sebastian Maniak Tags: agentgateway, mcp, proxmox, lxc, …
One-Script Deployment: agentgateway + Self-Hosted Langfuse on Kubernetes for LLM Cost Analysis
Running production-grade LLM gateways with full observability usually involves many manual steps across Helm charts, CRDs, tracing configuration, and UI key …
agentgateway Standalone → Langfuse: Direct OTLP Tracing (No Collector)
I’ve already covered the production OTel Collector pattern for shipping agentgateway traces to Langfuse. This is the opposite end of the spectrum: the …
Langfuse Integration with agentgateway (OTel Collector Pattern) for cost controls, observability
agentgateway emits rich OpenTelemetry traces for every LLM request, tool call, and policy decision. This guide shows the production-grade way to forward those …
Self-Hosted Langfuse with Docker + kagent Integration
Running Langfuse as a self-hosted Docker stack gives you full control over your LLM observability data. This guide shows how to deploy it and integrate it with …
Running kagent on a kind Cluster with a Local vLLM + Qwen3 Backend
Running kagent on a kind Cluster with a Local vLLM + Qwen3 Backend By Sebastian Maniak Most kagent walkthroughs assume you’re pointing at OpenAI or …
Proxying All Your LLM Traffic Through agentgateway with Grok Build
Introduction If you’re like me, your AI tooling has probably grown into a sprawling mess of API keys: Claude Code reads .claude/.env, Cursor uses OpenAI …
How To: Connect Claude Code & Codex Through agentgateway (Subscription + API Key)
Introduction You’ve got Claude Code running on your laptop. You’ve got Codex open in a tab. Both are just AI coding tools, right? Wrong. Behind the …
GitOps for Agents: Deployment and Management
Sebastian Maniak — Solo.io If your team has been running Kubernetes for any length of time, you’ve probably already adopted some form of GitOps — a Git …
How I Built a Multi-Topic AI Workspace with OpenClaw and Telegram
The Problem with One Big Chat When I first set up OpenClaw, I did what most people do — one Telegram chat, one conversation, everything in one place. It …
Building a Slack Bot That Updates Your Docs: Kagent, MCP, and GitHub in Action
The Problem Nobody Talks About Documentation rots. Everyone knows it, nobody wants to fix it. The friction is real — switching context from a Slack conversation …
Managing FortiGate Firewalls from Telegram with AI, MCP, and kagent
Managing FortiGate Firewalls from Telegram with AI, MCP, and kagent By Sebastian Maniak What if you could query your FortiGate firewall from Telegram? Not by …
Managing F5 BIG-IP from Telegram with an AI Agent, MCP, and kagent
Managing F5 BIG-IP from Telegram with an AI Agent, MCP, and kagent By Sebastian Maniak What if you could manage your F5 BIG-IP load balancer from Telegram? Not …
Building a Telegram Bot for Your Kubernetes Cluster with kagent and A2A
Building a Telegram Bot for Your Kubernetes Cluster with kagent and A2A By Sebastian Maniak What if you could manage your Kubernetes cluster from Telegram? Not …
How To: Run agentgateway standalone locally (UI + basic smoke test)
How To: Run agentgateway standalone locally (UI + basic smoke test) This is a quick-start for agentgateway v1.0.0-alpha.4 in standalone mode. Upstream repo: …
How To: Install agentgateway on Kubernetes (Helm OCI)
How To: Install agentgateway on Kubernetes (Helm OCI) This is a “get it running fast” install for agentgateway v1.0.0-alpha.4 using the OCI Helm charts …
agentgateway v1.0 (alpha): Why the 1.0 Line Matters (and What Changed)
agentgateway v1.0 (alpha): Why the 1.0 Line Matters (and What Changed) If you’ve been tracking agentgateway, you probably noticed something big: it crossed into …
What is agentgateway.dev? (And why it exists)
What is agentgateway.dev? (And why it exists) If you’re building agentic AI systems, you eventually hit the same wall: Your agents need tools (MCP servers, …
Human-in-the-Loop: Building AI Agents You Can Actually Trust on Kubernetes
Human-in-the-Loop: Building AI Agents You Can Actually Trust on Kubernetes By Sebastian Maniak AI agents are getting good — really good — at taking autonomous …
Prompting After Feb 2026: Prompt Craft → Context → Intent → Specs
Most people mean “write better prompts” when they say prompt engineering. That was a winning strategy in 2024–2025, when the dominant workflow was: ask in chat …
Configuring Local Qwen3 Embeddings for OpenClaw Memory
Configuring Local Qwen3 Embeddings for OpenClaw’s Memory System OpenClaw’s memory_search and memory_get tools enable semantic recall from MEMORY.md, …
Multi-Agent Architecture with a Kill Switch: Why Every AI Agent Needs a Gateway
The Setup I run a multi-agent system. One coordinator agent handles user interaction, memory, and routing. Specialist sub-agents get spawned on demand for …
MCP Multiplexing with agentgateway
Introduction As your agentic AI environment grows, you end up with a sprawl of MCP servers — one for time utilities, one for general-purpose tools, one for …
AWS AgentCore with agentgateway and Okta OAuth
You wouldn’t deploy microservices without an API gateway. So why are teams deploying AI agents with direct, ungoverned access to LLMs and external tools? …
Connect Any IDE to GitHub MCP Server Through agentgateway
Introduction Modern AI-powered IDEs and coding agents ship with built-in MCP client support. That means you can connect them to GitHub’s remote MCP server …
Open Source LLM Observability: Tracing AI Calls with agentgateway and Langfuse
Introduction You’ve got your AI gateway routing LLM traffic. But can you actually see what’s happening? Which models are being called, how many …
Route MCP and LLM Traffic from Claude Desktop and Claude Code Through agentgateway
Introduction Claude Desktop and Claude Code are powerful AI tools, but out of the box they talk directly to backend services with no visibility, no security …
Getting Started with LLM Provider Routing on Kind
Agentgateway makes it simple to route traffic to multiple LLM providers through a single gateway using the Kubernetes Gateway API. This guide walks through …
Open Source LLM Observability: Tracing AI Calls with agentgateway and Langfuse
Your AI agents are calling LLMs hundreds of times a day. Do you know what they’re sending? What they’re spending? Whether that prompt injection …
Your First AI Route: Connecting to OpenAI with agentgateway
Introduction This is a how-to guide to setup agentgateway and get your first AI route working with OpenAI. We’ll walk through the complete setup from …
Advanced Routing Patterns for AI Models with agentgateway
Introduction One of the most powerful features of agentgateway is its ability to intelligently route requests to different AI models or providers based on …
Observability Stack: Monitoring Your AI Gateway
Introduction Observability is crucial for any production AI Gateway deployment. Enterprise agentgateway emits comprehensive OpenTelemetry-compatible metrics, …
Setting Up Enterprise agentgateway on Kind Clusters
Introduction Enterprise agentgateway by Solo.io is a powerful AI Gateway solution that provides unified access to multiple LLM providers with advanced features …
Your First AI Route: Connecting to OpenAI with agentgateway
Introduction Now that you have agentgateway running with observability and have tested with a mock environment, it’s time to connect to a real AI …
Cloud Architecture Fundamentals
Cloud isn’t just someone else’s computer. It’s a different way of thinking about infrastructure entirely. Core Principles Design for failure. …
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