Akuity, the provider of the software delivery platform built by the creators of Argo CD and Kargo, today introduced its Agentic Control Plane and MCP Server. Announced in Sunnyvale, California, the new platform lets AI agents accelerate software delivery by giving them operational context and permissions to act, all governed by the same controls Akuity already enforces across the pipeline, giving engineering leadership confidence to let agents into production with real control over what they can touch.
Agentic engineering is driving teams to write more code than ever but shipping it safely has become the bottleneck. Agents are operating inside production environments, sanctioned or not, often with limited access to the data they would need to make a real impact. Many also connect through open-source MCP servers that grant raw access with no identity inheritance, no policy layer and no agent-aware audit trail, expanding the attack surface with every new connection.
Akuity's Agentic Control Plane is different from point solutions that have added guardrails or generic AI gateways that broker access to them: it runs the software delivery pipeline itself, capturing the deployment history, cluster health and change lineage that these other solutions don't have access to. That operational data is what lets agents move beyond writing code to actually shipping it.
Akuity MCP Server allows AI agents, in-house or third-party such as Claude, Codex or Cursor, to access the Akuity Platform, from cluster health down to the exact commit behind every deployment. Every request they make routes through the Agentic Control Plane which authenticates it as the specific user who connected the agent.
Key features include full operational context extending to infrastructure, cluster health and change lineage across the entire fleet so an agent can troubleshoot real incidents. Guardrails engineering leadership can trust ensure every agent action runs through the same identity, permissions and audit trail with policy restrictions on sensitive production actions. One connection authenticates once and carries the user's existing permissions across every instance and cluster, with no separate credentials to provision or rotate and no new endpoint for security to worry about.
“Within hours of enabling Akuity's Agentic Control Plane, it identified more than one hundred degraded applications, and in under ten minutes, it flagged one project as the source of a systemic issue, traced it to the root cause and had a fix ready to go. That's exactly the workflow we wanted: identify the problem, tell us if it's systemic and hand us the fix. This is already bringing value to the team, and we are looking to expand its adoption,” said Michael Goodness, Principal DevOps Engineer, MLB.
"AI agents have moved past writing code to operating how infrastructure changes get delivered and promoted to production, whether we've built the guardrails for it or not. The winners in this next phase won't be whoever adopts AI fastest, it'll be whoever gives their agents a safe, reliable path to do that work. That's what Akuity’s Agentic Control Plane is for," said Hong Wang, co-founder and CEO of Akuity.
With Akuity's Agentic Control Plane, customers can gain visibility without the overhead by asking a single question and getting an answer across every cluster instead of checking each one separately. Teams can stand up new services in hours, not weeks, starting from an empty repo and asking their agent to bootstrap the entire delivery setup for a new service, environments, promotion rules and ship it the same afternoon.
Users can promote a release without leaving the chat by asking their agent to check a release's promotion history and eligibility then promote it to the next environment, with existing approval rules still applying whether a person or an agent made the request. Agent-to-agent troubleshooting enables users to ask their agent to troubleshoot a struggling instance, connecting directly to Akuity's On-Call Agent, pulling in logs and recent changes to diagnose the issue and recommend a fix.
About Akuity
Akuity is the provider of the leading software delivery platform for enterprise-ready delivery, continuous promotion and AI-powered intelligence for industry leaders. Akuity was founded by the original creators of Argo CD and Kargo; the team has experience running tens of thousands of applications at scale with multi-billion dollar impact.
