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Agent Substrate brings high-density, scalable, trusted infrastructure to GKE

Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions of sandboxes with 10x higher density than standard container runtimes.

Agent Substrate brings high-density, scalable, trusted infrastructure to GKE
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Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).

Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions of sandboxes with 10x higher density than standard container runtimes.

Purpose-built for the era of autonomous agents, Substrate delivers sub-500ms resume operations at over 500 suspend/resume activations per second with a native zero-trust kernel and network isolation.

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Today, we are announcing the availability of Agent Substrate on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE). Agent Substrate is an open-source, secure-by-default agent execution runtime engineered to run millions of sandboxes with 10x higher density than standard container runtimes. Purpose-built for the era of autonomous agents, Substrate delivers sub-500ms resume operations at over 500 suspend/resume activations per second with a native zero-trust kernel and network isolation.

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  • Nous Research, the team behind the Hermes Agent, is actively building on top of Agent Substrate.
  • Without kernel-level isolation and dynamic network controls, ru...
  • Agent Substrate is available as an open-source solution that runs on any Kubernetes infrastructure and is optimized for GKE.
  • Hermes is currently ranked the #1 AI agent globally by OpenRouter usage across productivity, coding, CLI, and personal agents.

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