Agentic Runtime — Working Group Notes

Status: Phase 1 of 4 — Research (open for contributions). This repository is in its initial ideation/research phase. The process described below is itself under review — see IDEATION.md and please leave feedback on the pull request that introduces it.

Research notes, design documents, and RFCs for the Cloud Foundry Agentic Runtime Working Group.

The working group's mission is to run AI agents and LLM-powered workloads as first-class citizens on Cloud Foundry — deployed, managed, secured, scaled, and observed using the same platform-native primitives developers and operators rely on today.

What this repo is for

This repo bootstraps a crowd-sourced, distributed research phase. Anyone interested in the future of agentic workloads on Cloud Foundry is invited to contribute — either a quick idea in ideas/ or a sourced research note in research/, both as pull requests. The accumulated material becomes the raw input for a working-group workshop that identifies themes and spins up focused proof-of-concept and RFC work.

The roadmap

Contributions come in two linked lanes — raw ideas and the sourced research that backs them. Research is reusable, so one note can support several ideas, and an idea with enough research behind it can grow into a proposal later on:

1. Capture & research (now) — drop a spark in ideas/ or a sourced note in research/, via PRs.
2. Workshop — the working group clusters the material into emergent themes.
3. Match — members align their interests to themes.
4. POC / RFC — per-theme tracks produce proofs-of-concept and Cloud Foundry RFCs.

See IDEATION.md for the full brief.

How to contribute

Two ways in, both via pull request:

• Have a quick idea? Drop a short note in ideas/ — low bar, no sourcing required. We'd rather capture it than turn it away for not being a full research note.
• Ready to write it up? Copy research/TEMPLATE.md, fill it in, and add it to research/.

Read CONTRIBUTING.md for the workflow. In this phase we're especially interested in research that looks outward at the wider agentic ecosystem — see IDEATION.md for scope.

Community

• Charter: toc/working-groups/agentic-runtime.md
• Slack: #ai-wg on the Cloud Foundry workspace
• Working groups: cloudfoundry/community

License

Apache 2.0 — see LICENSE. By contributing you agree to the Cloud Foundry Contributor License Agreement. You don't need to do anything up front — the EasyCLA bot prompts you to sign on your first pull request.