Hortator

The Kubernetes operator that commands your AI fleet

What is Hortator?

Hortator is a Kubernetes operator that orchestrates AI agents at scale. Spawn intelligent agents as pods, enforce guardrails declaratively, and build hierarchical agent swarms — all with the tooling you already know.

terminal


# Spawn an AI agent to analyze your codebase
$ hortator spawn \
    --prompt "Review this PR for security vulnerabilities" \
    --model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 \
    --guardrails security-review

# Agent spawned as a Kubernetes pod
✓ Agent pr-review-7x8k2 running in namespace agents

DETAIL A

Specifications

Core Features

Agent Spawning

Deploy AI agents as Kubernetes pods with a single command. Scale from one to thousands with familiar k8s primitives.

Declarative Guardrails

Define safety boundaries as Custom Resources. Enforce rate limits, content policies, and tool access through YAML.

Hierarchical Swarms

Build agent hierarchies where supervisors spawn and coordinate worker agents. Complex tasks, simple orchestration.

Open Source

Apache 2.0 licensed. Run on any Kubernetes cluster — EKS, GKE, AKS, or bare metal. Your agents, your infrastructure.