Open-Sourcing Orca Agent Engine: Self-Hosted Agent Governance Arrives | The Agentic Stack

Orca Agent Engine is now Apache 2.0 Developer Preview, a production-used agent runtime moving to a self-hostable model with governance controls, CLI, and TypeScript, Python, and Go SDKs. This episode covers what changed, practical builder evaluation steps, portability testing across SDKs, the risk of a Developer Preview without independent security audits or scaling data, and what it means for teams considering a managed agent harness alternative.

Keywords: Orca Agent Engine, OAE, Apache 2.0, self-hosted agents, agent runtime, agent governance, AI agents, agentic AI, TypeScript SDK, Python SDK, Go SDK, CLI, Developer Preview, managed agent harness, Agentic Stack

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