Show HN: Récif – Open-source control tower for AI agents on Kubernetes

Deploy autonomous agents on Kubernetes with evaluation-driven lifecycle, enterprise governance, and real-time monitoring. No vendor lock-in. We've all seen the demo. An AI agent answers questions, calls tools, chains reasoning steps. The room is impressed. Then it reaches production. Most tools let you deploy without measuring. An agent inventing policies, deleting databases, hallucinating answers — these aren't edge cases. They're what happens without operational discipline. Proprietary platforms tie you to one model provider and one deployment model. Your agents become hostages to someone else's roadmap and pricing. Open-source chat UIs lack multi-tenancy, audit trails, guardrails, and the operational discipline required for regulated environments. Récif is infrastructure for autonomous agents. A control tower, not a conversation UI. Récif isn't another ChatGPT wrapper. It's the control tower for autonomous agents that run in production. Deploy once, govern forever. Agents don't live inside Récif — they live independently in their own containers. Corail agents are autonomous: they run their own runtime, their own model, their own tools. Récif is the ecosystem that connects, governs, and observes them — like a reef nurturing its corals. Scorecards, guardrails, versioned releases, audit trails. Know what your agents do, why, and how well. Agents are autonomous containers. Récif is the control tower that governs them. They communicate via gRPC, deploy via GitOps, and run on Kubernetes. Every agent runs with an Istio sidecar. mTLS encryption, traffic management, canary deployments, and full observability — out of the box. No competitor offers this. From model selection to governance, Récif handles the full lifecycle. Ollama, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Vertex AI, OpenAI. Switch providers without changing code. Anthropic-compatible skill packages. Import from GitHub, build custom, share across teams. pgvector-powered retrieval. Connect Drive, Jira, Confluence, Databricks natively. Real-time health, latency, token consumption, cost tracking, alerts per agent. Scorecards, quality gates, guardrail policies, risk profiles. Enterprise compliance built-in. Every config change is a Git commit. Immutable artifacts, diff, rollback, full audit trail. Product teams create agents in minutes. Engineers scaffold projects with LangChain, CrewAI, AutoGen. Deploy new versions to a subset of traffic. Evaluate with golden datasets before full rollout. Native MCP tool support. Plus HTTP, CLI, and custom tool types. Connect GitHub, Jira, Slack, AWS, GCP, and more. From zero to governed agents in minutes, not months. One command. Kind + Helm locally, or Terraform for cloud. The full platform spins up in minutes. Create agents via the dashboard or define them as Kubernetes CRDs. Infrastructure as code, natively. Monitor, evaluate, and control your agents at scale. Scorecards grade quality. Guardrails enforce policy. From data ingestion to user feedback, every component feeds the evaluation loop. No agent ships without proof. No regression goes undetected. A pluggable ingestion pipeline that transforms documents into searchable vector embeddings. From raw PDF to agent-ready knowledge in one command. Honest comparison with real competitors. Récif doesn't compete with chat UIs — it's a different category. | Feature | Récif | Dify | LibreChat | OpenWebUI | CrewAI | Gemini Enterprise | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Autonomous Agents | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | | Eval-Gated Releases | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ~ | | Canary Deployments | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | | Service Mesh (Istio) | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | | K8s CRDs + Operator | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ~ | ✕ | ~ | | GitOps Releases | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | | Governance & Scorecards | ✓ | ~ | ✕ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | | Multi-Model (8+ providers) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | | MCP Tools | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | | RAG / Knowledge Base | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | | Agent Memory | ✓ | ~ | ✕ | ✕ | ✓ | ✓ | | Visual Workflow Builder | ✕ | ✓ | ✕ | ✕ | ~ | ~ | | Multi-Tenant | ✓ | ✓ | ~ | ~ | ~ | ✓ | | Open Source | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | | Self-Hosted | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✕ | Based on real feedback from teams evaluating Dify, LibreChat, OpenWebUI, CrewAI, and Gemini Enterprise. Deploy Récif in minutes. Join the community building the future of autonomous AI infrastructure.