When a team moves AI agents from a demo into real work - outbound, error triage, reporting - the first question is rarely which model to use. It is who owns the orchestration layer: which agent runs, with which tools, under whose permissions, and where the result lands.
Kortix is the open-source AI Management System that answers that question with files you own. Its agents, skills, company memory, connector config and triggers live in one git repo; every session runs on its own isolated Linux machine; and every completed run lands as a change request a human reads as a diff.
Three layers an orchestration platform has to own
- The agent harness. A model alone answers; an agent plans, calls tools and finishes multi-step runs. Kortix configures the harness (powered by OpenCode) from a file in the repo and sets allow / ask / block permissions per tool, down to a single shell command.
- The connector layer. Real work crosses Slack, docs, tickets, CRM, billing and code. Kortix wires 3,000+ apps plus any MCP, OpenAPI, GraphQL or HTTP API, and brokers connector credentials server-side so secrets never enter the machine.
- The memory and review layer. What the company learns should accumulate as files, not disappear into someone else's database. Kortix keeps memory beside the agents in the same repo you grep and diff, and gates every change behind a change request.
Why open source is the point
Closed agent platforms route your orchestration through their infrastructure and their roadmap. Kortix is open source (Elastic License 2.0) - self-host on a laptop, a VPS, your VPC or on-prem, or run managed cloud. Pick the model per agent, per session or per message - Claude, OpenAI, Gemini or your own OpenAI-compatible endpoint - and bring your own keys.
If you are evaluating an open-source AI agent orchestration platform, the test is simple: can you read the run, diff the change, and roll it back without asking anyone?
Deeper walkthrough, layer by layer: https://opensourceaiagentplatform.com/ai-agent-orchestration.html
See how Kortix runs it: https://kortix.com
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