CROSS-CATEGORY: Three Vendors on Three Continents Open-Sourced an Agent Control Plane Inside 48 Hours
Synthesis of WSO2 Agent Manager GA (2026-09-21), google/ax v0.3.0 release (2026-09-20) and Verdict on Huawei Connect 2026 (2026-09-21)·high signal
Google released AX v0.3.0 under Apache 2.0 on September 20; WSO2 took Agent Manager to general availability under Apache 2.0 on September 21 with self-hosting and a sandboxed runtime; Huawei Cloud used its September 21 Connect keynote to report its openJiuwen open-source edition of AgentArts past 50,000 stars and 3.29 million downloads. All three sell the same thing free (the control plane that governs, sandboxes and resumes agents) and charge for the managed hosting above it. The layer everyone spent 2026 trying to sell as a product is being commoditized by its own would-be vendors.