{"slug": "show-hn-managed-agents-api-for-open-source-agents", "title": "Show HN: Managed Agents API for open source agents", "summary": "Brainbase launched a Managed Agents API for open source agents, now generally available, enabling teams to build, deploy, and scale AI agents across any model or harness with built-in hosting, orchestration, and observability. The platform powers over 10,000 agents in production and supports use cases like internal AI employees, agentic products, and high-frequency workflows, with enterprise-grade security and compliance.", "body_md": "[Brainbase is now GA. Read the announcement](/blog/brainbase-is-now-ga)\n\n# The AI agent cloud\n\nBrainbase lets teams get to extremely powerful agents extremely fast across any model or harness by handling agent hosting, scaling, evaluations and more.\n\nPowering 10,000+ agents in production for\n\nPowering 10,000+ agents in production for\n\n## Use cases\n\n### Internal AI employees\n\nStand up agents that take on real work across support, ops, and sales — full-time teammates that never sleep.\n\n### Agentic products and features\n\nEmbed agentic capabilities directly inside your own product, on any model or harness you choose.\n\n### High-frequency AI workflows\n\nRun high-volume, repeatable agent workflows at scale, with evaluations and observability built in.\n\n## Building your first agent\n\nDefine an agent in a few lines of YAML — model, harness, tools, and instructions — then push it to the cloud.\n\n## What Brainbase handles for you\n\nStandardize\n\n### One API for every agent\n\nA single Managed Agents API for any model or harness — with a registry for your agents, skills and tools, and managed auth.\n\n- Any model or harness\n- A single registry for agents, skills & tools\n- Managed auth out of the box\n\n[Read the API docs](https://docs.brainbaselabs.com/api)\n\nOrchestrate\n\n### Teams of agents, working together\n\nCompose multi-agent systems that pursue complex goals, deployable anywhere your users already are.\n\n- Multi-agent orchestration\n- Hand-offs between agents\n- Shared tools, memory & state\n\n[Explore orchestration](https://docs.brainbaselabs.com/docs/orchestrations/building-an-orchestration)\n\nSurfaces\n\n### Deploy anywhere your users are\n\nShip the same agent to any surface natively — expose it as an API or drop it into the tools your team already lives in, with no glue code.\n\n- API-native by default\n- One agent, every channel\n- No frontend work required\n\n[See all surfaces](https://docs.brainbaselabs.com/docs/agent/surfaces)\n\nScale\n\n### 1 to 1M+ sandboxes in milliseconds\n\nSpin up isolated sandboxes on demand and scale elastically — on your cloud or ours.\n\n- Millisecond cold starts\n- Your cloud or ours\n- Elastic to 1M+ agents\n\n[See how scaling works](https://docs.brainbaselabs.com/cli)\n\nObserve\n\n### See what actually happened in production\n\nInspect every trace and tool call, search across millions of logs, and track latency, cost, and quality in real time.\n\n- Scalable trace ingestion\n- Live performance monitoring\n- Custom views & annotation\n\n[Log your first trace](https://docs.brainbaselabs.com/docs/monitoring/tasks)\n\n## Enterprise-ready\n\nSecure by default, compliant from day one — SOC 2 Type II, GDPR, HIPAA, SSO, RBAC, and hybrid deployment, out of the box.\n\n### SOC 2 Type II\n\nIndependently audited security controls, verified annually.\n\n### GDPR compliant\n\nFull compliance with EU data protection regulations.\n\n### HIPAA compliant\n\nHIPAA-grade controls to secure PII and PHI.\n\n### SSO / SAML\n\nIntegrate with your identity provider for seamless auth.\n\n### Granular permissions\n\nRole-based access control at the project and resource level.\n\n### Hybrid deployment\n\nRun agents and your data plane on your own cloud or ours.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-managed-agents-api-for-open-source-agents", "canonical_source": "https://brainbaselabs.com", "published_at": "2026-06-19 20:39:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 21:08:22.398501+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "ai-tools", "ai-products", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Brainbase", "Managed Agents API", "SOC 2", "GDPR", "HIPAA", "SSO", "SAML", "RBAC"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-managed-agents-api-for-open-source-agents", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-managed-agents-api-for-open-source-agents.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-managed-agents-api-for-open-source-agents.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-managed-agents-api-for-open-source-agents.jsonld"}}