Stacklok pitches cloud-native agent harness Mecatl for enterprises

Key points

• Stacklok, co-founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda, pivoted into Kubernetes-based agentic solutions after starting in software supply chain security.
• Mecatl, an open source cloud-native harness, began on GitHub in June and keeps the agent loop separate from client, model provider, state and execution.
• Session management and memory move out of local JSONL files into manageable systems that enterprises can govern centrally.
• Stacklok's AI Gateway, not yet open sourced, handles access control, budgets, reporting and provider routing rather than task-based model selection.

Why it matters for marketers: Content and marketing teams at regulated enterprises may need to weigh centrally governed agent infrastructure against desktop-first coding tools when planning AI workflows.