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Envoy AI Gateway is becoming Agent Router, an Agentic AI Foundation project

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Agent Router Maintainers
Agent Router Maintainers
The Agent Router maintainer team

Agent Router. Formerly Envoy AI Gateway. Joining the Agentic AI Foundation on 10 September.

On 10 September, Agent Router, previously Envoy AI Gateway, officially joins the Agentic AI Foundation.

Same code. Same maintainers. New home.

A new home​

Envoy AI Gateway started as an Envoy sub-project within the CNCF. On 10 September it becomes a standalone project and moves into the Agentic AI Foundation.

This is great news for the community. The AAIF is home to the agentic stack ecosystem, and being part of it puts Agent Router closer to the projects and people building that stack. We get to collaborate more directly, and keep building the solutions that power agents together with everyone else in the foundation.

What does not change​

Nothing you deploy is renamed. The product name changes in prose only.

  • CRDs and API group stay as they are. AIGatewayRoute, AIServiceBackend, BackendSecurityPolicy, and the aigateway.envoyproxy.io API group are not being renamed.
  • The CLI is still aigw, and the envoy-ai-gateway-system namespace stays the same.
  • Same maintainers, same release cadence, same Apache 2.0 license.
  • Envoy stays underneath. Agent Router is still built on Envoy and Envoy Gateway.

Your manifests from yesterday apply tomorrow. There is nothing to migrate.

What does change​

  • The name. Envoy AI Gateway becomes Agent Router.
  • The repository moves to theagentrouter/agent-router. Old envoyproxy/ai-gateway links redirect.
  • The website moves to theagentrouter.ai. Every aigateway.envoyproxy.io link redirects to the same page.
  • Community chat moves to the Agent Router Discord. The weekly community meeting continues as before.

Where to go next​

Thank you to everyone who built, adopted, reviewed, and championed Envoy AI Gateway over the past two years. The name on the door is new. The people behind it, and the code, are the same.

Agent Router configures. Envoy handles the traffic.