CNCF announces Dapr Agents, a vendor-neutral AI framework
Hi all, I'm the creator and maintainer of Dapr. Today we announced an agentic AI framework that allows developers to run thousands of agents on a single core that can scale to/from zero with minimal latency, with a durable execution engine that supports automatic retries. Us maintainers would very much appreciate your feedback
CNCF announces Dapr Agents, a vendor-neutral AI framework launched on March 12, 2025 with 10 votes, #2,743 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
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Dapr Agents is a vendor-neutral AI framework that enables developers to run thousands of agents on minimal hardware with automatic scaling and low latency. It features a durable execution engine with built-in retry capabilities, designed for efficient agent-based applications. The framework is built and maintained by the CNCF community and is available on GitHub.
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Build autonomous, resilient and observable AI agents with built-in workflow orchestration, security, statefulness and telemetry. - dapr/dapr-agents
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