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Kelos - The Kubernetes-native framework for orchestrating autonomous AI coding agents.

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Kelos – Run Claude –dangerously-skip-permissions on Kubernetes

by gjkim042·Mar 4, 2026·2 points·1 comment

AI Analysis

MidBold Bet

Self-dogfooding via 24/7 agent tasks on Kelos itself; solid but unproven at scale.

Strengths
  • Self-hosting on Kubernetes is a genuine architectural advantage over serverless—persistent agent context and full control
  • Supports multiple agent backends (Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, custom) instead of locking into one LLM provider
  • Live proof of concept: the project uses Kelos on itself with open issue pipeline
Weaknesses
  • Kubernetes-only limits addressable market—most teams don't run k8s or maintain it for this use case
  • Autonomous agents still error-prone; README shows 'needs-input' labels for stuck agents, suggesting serious reliability gaps—not 'dangerously skip permissions' ready in practice
Target Audience

Platform engineers and teams running large Kubernetes clusters with autonomous development pipelines

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Post Description

Kelos is a Kubernetes framework for orchestrating autonomous coding agents. It runs Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode, or custom agents safely in isolated, ephemeral pods.

The idea is that you define your everyday development workflows as YAML and let them run continuously on Kubernetes. Agent tasks are Kubernetes CRDs, so things like:

- Watch for “bug” issues → auto-draft a fix PR

- Auto-review incoming pull requests

- Auto-triage new issues with labels and priority

- Periodically scan the codebase → propose improvements

- Test the project as a new user → surface rough edges

Kelos is using this on itself. The self-development pipeline picks up open issues, investigates them, opens or updates a PR, self-reviews, and retries if CI fails. When the agent gets stuck, it labels the issue needs-input and stops: https://github.com/kelos-dev/kelos/tree/main/self-developmen...

I still do the final review and manually merge PRs, but it’s been quite helpful.

https://github.com/kelos-dev/kelos

Happy to answer questions about the design or what’s broken.

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