Scaling Agents on Kubernetes with acpx and ACP — Onur Solmaz, OpenClaw
May 21, 2026 · 19:00
Onur Solmaz, a founding engineer at textcortex and OpenClaw maintainer, built acpx, a headless CLI for the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), to automate processing of 300–500 daily AI-generated pull requests on OpenClaw. He replaces manual PTY scraping with structured agent-to-client communication, driving Codex sessions through a node-based workflow: reproduce the bug, judge the implementation, check for conflicts, run a review loop, and emit structured JSON. Solmaz runs parallel Codex sessions from five Discord channels while traveling, one channel per task. He also presents an open-source Kubernetes operator called Spritz (from textcortex) that provisions disposable full-compute pods per task, wires them into Slack, and tears them down when work is done, advocating for on-demand disposable agents over persistent chat apps.