The Agentic Service Mesh
Manifesto

We are entering the era of the Autonomous Mesh.

Preamble

For twenty years, we built infrastructure based on precise contracts. REST. gRPC. GraphQL. URL paths were rigid, and intent was binary. But the new consumer of your API isn't a browser, and it isn't a human. It is an Agent. Agents are probabilistic. They speak natural language, not HTTP. They make mistakes. And right now, we are building their infrastructure on a foundation of 'Prompt Engineering' and hope. We believe hope is not a strategy.

I

Intelligence is Expensive.
Routing Must Be Free.

It is architectural malpractice to spend $0.03 and 500ms of latency calling a Large Language Model just to decide which microservice to call. Routing is an infrastructure problem, not a reasoning problem. AIMux runs locally. It brings the semantic engine to the proxy.

II

Identity is Binary.
Access is Deterministic.

An LLM can be convinced to ignore its instructions. A Go binary cannot. When an agent hallucinates and attempts to DELETE production data, the safety mechanism shouldn't be a polite suggestion—it should be a 403 Forbidden. Security belongs in the mesh.

III

The Network Must
Understand Intent.

Traditional load balancers route based on address (/api/v1/billing). The Agentic Mesh must route based on intent ('check my burn rate'). We are bridging the gap between the probabilistic world of AI and the deterministic world of microservices.

IV

Sovereignty is
Non-Negotiable.

Your routing layer should not depend on the uptime of a third-party API. AIMux runs on your metal, in your VPC, using your local ONNX models. It creates a self-contained ecosystem where your infrastructure owns the intelligence.

Stop hardcoding routes.
Stop trusting prompts.
Start governing your mesh.