Stacklok Launches Mecatl, a Cloud-Native Agent Runtime Framework

Stacklok was founded by Kubernetes creators Craig McLuckie and Joe Beda. On October 7, 2026, Latent Space published an interview with the two founders, introducing Mecatl, their cloud-native agent harness. According to the interview, Stacklok draws on the Kubernetes approach to move the agent harness to the cloud, forming a cloud-native agent runtime framework. The two founders explained Mecatl's architecture design in detail during the interview. Public information mainly comes from this interview; the event is still in the product and architecture introduction stage, with no further follow-up reports yet.

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