{"slug": "scion", "name": "Scion", "category": "infra", "category_name": "Infrastructure and DevOps", "description": "", "recommenders": 5, "commenters": 13, "warners": 4, "score": 1.11, "rising": 0.36, "first": "2026-01-12", "latest": "2026-10-16", "why": "I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 10, "neutral": 3, "compare": 2, "warn": 4}, "spark": [0, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/googlecloudplatform/scion", "official_url": "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/scion", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Scion", "SCION"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801555761, "item_id": 50097235, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097235", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scion was the tool I'd been using for this", "excerpt": "https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo (first time I'm seeing this, reading through I'm not sure this is for me) Scion was the tool I'd been using for this, but haven't been doing that kind of stuff for some time. https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/", "context": "", "use_case": "Agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 796497856, "item_id": 49781116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781116", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well.", "excerpt": "I'd evaluated both Google's Agent Substrate (that underlies Ax) and their Scion project. I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well. Ax/Agent Substrate is much more a greenfield independent effort, it's own thing. I think Scion has so much more mature a disosition: you could write OpenCode plugins that enhance the runner, and use that locally, and use it in Scion. 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There are a number of OC plugins that try to add higher level orchestration as well as independent wrappers like https://kubeopencode.github.io/kubeopencode/docs/features/ It's debatable if yo", "context": "", "use_case": "agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?"}, {"id": 778897441, "item_id": 48681090, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681090", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-06-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have high interest in scion too! I love the robust platform underneath.", "excerpt": "I was there for the month or so when I could still talk to my sub-agent directly in opencode. Yes: the subagent couldn't talk to the parent anymore after a first return to it, but that didn't matter. That I could beget new useful interact able agents was amazing. I'm mad and bitter angry and won't ever stop being mad until opencode or I fix it so that opencode really has multiple agents that can work with each other,", "context": "", "use_case": "multi-agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 801813296, "item_id": 50113331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113331", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "in a way that some people would classify as cheating / plagiarism / insert-your-criticism-here", "excerpt": "Here's the context for that \"scandal\" comment: https://lobste.rs/s/plcgps/anthropic_s_scion_is_heavily_inspired_by#c_wtwktk We've since got a few more details, it looks like the new information is that there are people on the team who built Scion who had previously worked at Meta and had direct experience with Sapling and Mononoke: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/ I stand by my original comment: back", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"}, {"id": 758767600, "item_id": 47422975, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422975", "by": "rahkiin", "date": "2026-03-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Well, SCION might not be open. No open standard, no IETF, no open source implementation", "excerpt": "Well, SCION might not be open. 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I am the original author of the blog post and wanted to clear the air a bit here. We credited Sapling because that's how Meta itself externally refers to the entire system, including the Mononoke server, and we wanted to follow that convention. We will add an additional footnote to clarify this. [edit: this is done] We were inspired by many things while building Scion, such as the great ideas in Mononoke's Bonsai", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke"}, {"id": 762895616, "item_id": 47680976, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47680976", "by": "ptone", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Scion is the game engine", "excerpt": "[primary author and architect of scion here] The missing features are mostly by design - this is closer to what the gastown plans as \"gascity\" - bring your own orchestration characters and definition. If you look at this orchestration example https://github.com/ptone/scion-athenaeum its just markdown - Scion is the game engine (a port of gastown to run on scion is in progress)", "context": "", "use_case": "agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}, {"id": 761628432, "item_id": 47601777, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47601777", "by": "xyquadrat", "date": "2026-04-01", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SCION right now provides the backbone for the Swiss financial network", "excerpt": "Hmm, I'd disagree. The fact that Anapaya Systems (the for profit company mentioned) has the only commercial implementation/adjacent software is a problem, yes. But \"snake oil\" doesn't quite match up with the fact that SCION right now provides the backbone for the Swiss financial network moving 200 billion CHF each day [1], so at least some level of workable technology has to be there. And for no one to be taking it s", "context": "has worked on SCION-based projects", "use_case": "network routing architecture", "switched_from": "", "story": "Is BGP Safe Yet? No. Test Your ISP"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47675213", "title": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion", "mentions": 5}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49780797", "title": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48680842", "title": "Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50094994", "title": "OpenCode 2.0", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47421946", "title": "Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46590541", "title": "Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association", "mentions": 2}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {}, "2025-12": {}, "2026-01": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 2}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {"warn": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-04": {"neutral": 3, "compare": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"recommend": 2}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-09": {"recommend": 1, "compare": 1, "warn": 1}, "2026-10": {"recommend": 1, "warn": 1}}, "quotes": [{"id": 801813296, "item_id": 50113331, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113331", "by": "simonw", "date": "2026-10-16", "stance": "warn", "quote": "in a way that some people would classify as cheating / plagiarism / insert-your-criticism-here", "excerpt": "Here's the context for that \"scandal\" comment: https://lobste.rs/s/plcgps/anthropic_s_scion_is_heavily_inspired_by#c_wtwktk We've since got a few more details, it looks like the new information is that there are people on the team who built Scion who had previously worked at Meta and had direct experience with Sapling and Mononoke: https://sunshowers.io/posts/anthropic-mononoke-2/ I stand by my original comment: back", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"}, {"id": 801581024, "item_id": 50098814, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50098814", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-15", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I think Scion (Google's) does a decent job defining these concepts", "excerpt": "I use \"harness\" for the tool which calls the llm, has the tools, interacts with the computer (filesys, bash, etc), does the session bookeeping and \"agent\" as the instance which is running... this is the more overloaded term because there are \"agent\" definitions, this is where a combinatorial exists, because the running \"agent\" is a combination of agent definitions, context, tool choice where you can modify each indep", "context": "", "use_case": "agent harness concepts", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 801555761, "item_id": 50097235, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097235", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-10-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Scion was the tool I'd been using for this", "excerpt": "https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo (first time I'm seeing this, reading through I'm not sure this is for me) Scion was the tool I'd been using for this, but haven't been doing that kind of stuff for some time. https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/", "context": "", "use_case": "Agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "OpenCode 2.0"}, {"id": 796530209, "item_id": 49783138, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49783138", "by": "mpeg", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "warn", "quote": "", "excerpt": "The project that ax builds on top of does have that disclaimer, and sits on a non-google organisation https://github.com/agent-substrate/substrate", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator"}, {"id": 796505408, "item_id": 49781588, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781588", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "another very related Google project (one employee)", "excerpt": "for comparison/contrast, another very related Google project (one employee) on one of their github orgs that comes with the following disclaimer > This is not an officially supported Google product. This project is not eligible for the Google Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/scion", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator"}, {"id": 796504928, "item_id": 49781558, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781558", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-09-21", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Scion wraps the harnesses (9x) we all use every day and is closer to OpenClaw on Kubernetes", "excerpt": "I'm keeping an eye on another Google Cloud orchestrator https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/ Scion wraps the harnesses (9x) we all use every day and is closer to OpenClaw on Kubernetes", "context": "", "use_case": "Agent orchestration on Kubernetes", "switched_from": "", "story": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator"}, {"id": 796497856, "item_id": 49781116, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49781116", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-09-20", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well.", "excerpt": "I'd evaluated both Google's Agent Substrate (that underlies Ax) and their Scion project. I really enjoy how Scion operates with existing tools really well. Ax/Agent Substrate is much more a greenfield independent effort, it's own thing. I think Scion has so much more mature a disosition: you could write OpenCode plugins that enhance the runner, and use that locally, and use it in Scion. With Ax/Agent Substrate, you a", "context": "", "use_case": "scaling agentic workloads", "switched_from": "", "story": "AX \u2013 Google\u2019s Open Agentic Orchestrator"}, {"id": 789894672, "item_id": 49368417, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49368417", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-08-19", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I personally like the way Scion breaks it down into", "excerpt": "I personally like the way Scion breaks it down into - model - harness (tools/config) - agent (live/running) https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/concepts/ Scion allows for multiple configurations of a harness, allowing you to configure the same tool differently based on what you are doing, particularly important when you want to restrict permissions. https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/supported-harnes", "context": "", "use_case": "Multi-agent harness configuration", "switched_from": "", "story": "fx :Tiny, open, native coding agent."}, {"id": 778907584, "item_id": 48681724, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681724", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-06-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I like Scions", "excerpt": "I like Scions \"merging of three pieces\" (harness/env, agent provider (LLM and related config), agent def (like agents in claude/opencode)) Scion OC support is not good on main, I have a (outdated) fork which vastly improves it. There are a number of OC plugins that try to add higher level orchestration as well as independent wrappers like https://kubeopencode.github.io/kubeopencode/docs/features/ It's debatable if yo", "context": "", "use_case": "agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?"}, {"id": 778897441, "item_id": 48681090, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681090", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-06-25", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I have high interest in scion too! I love the robust platform underneath.", "excerpt": "I was there for the month or so when I could still talk to my sub-agent directly in opencode. Yes: the subagent couldn't talk to the parent anymore after a first return to it, but that didn't matter. That I could beget new useful interact able agents was amazing. I'm mad and bitter angry and won't ever stop being mad until opencode or I fix it so that opencode really has multiple agents that can work with each other,", "context": "", "use_case": "multi-agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?"}, {"id": 778896897, "item_id": 48681056, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48681056", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-06-25", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Scion can then run these OC agent trees", "excerpt": "https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/ OpenCode subagents In my experience, I've gone back to basics and want to make them really good before going back up to multi-agent. This is why I'm using opencode now, one top-level agent, no message passing. Scion can then run these OC agent trees and they can send messages to each other. If you don't have the basics in a good place, they will go off the rails a", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: How did you set up a multi-agent orchestration for personal use?"}, {"id": 777420768, "item_id": 48588798, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48588798", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-06-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "This is what https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/scion does", "excerpt": "This is what https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/scion does", "context": "", "use_case": "run coding agents in containers", "switched_from": "", "story": "Migrate from OpenClaw"}, {"id": 768654704, "item_id": 48040919, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040919", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-05-06", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I've been using Scion [1] lately to put my agents in the background", "excerpt": "I've been using Scion [1] lately to put my agents in the background (not claw styling it yet) It's hard to gauge dev speed, putting in the thought upfront sometimes seems worth it, other times I just fire off some idea and it brings back more things to think about, which I would have spent a bunch of time figuring out where the gap came from. Being involved in the iteration still makes a ton of sense to me. I think s", "context": "", "use_case": "Background agent orchestration", "switched_from": "", "story": "How to improve code quality of Claude Code and codex (on 2026-05)"}, {"id": 763590256, "item_id": 47724391, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47724391", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-04-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "looks more mature as well", "excerpt": "> as always there is a buy vs build tradeoff it's a nonbinary decision now Google has a free, open source take on what you are building, looks more mature as well https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/scion/overview/ My comment about Cowork is more about pointing out a different feature set that will crossover with Code. In example they have the Task related things as an affordance, Code has this coming.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": null}, {"id": 762968369, "item_id": 47685523, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47685523", "by": "visarga", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I made one similar harness, mine does lightweight sandboxing with Seatbelt on Mac and Bubblewrap on Linux. I initially used Docker too, but abandoned it. I like how these 2 sandboxes allow me to make all the file system r/o except the project folder which is r/w (and a few other config folders). This means my code runs inside the sandbox like outside, same paths hold, same file system. The .git folder is also r/o ins", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}, {"id": 762945536, "item_id": 47684096, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47684096", "by": "brynary", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "compare", "quote": "Scion looks interesting", "excerpt": "Scion looks interesting, as a \u201chypervisor for agents\u201d. It has Kubernetes influences, and a substrate for agent execution is a useful primitive. Gastown goes further than Scion in that it chains agents together into an ecosystem. My sense is that Gastown or similar could be built as a layer on top of Scion. Dan Shapiro helped shape my thinking on the two most important capabilities for agent orchestration as concurren", "context": "", "use_case": "Agent execution hypervisor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}, {"id": 762860336, "item_id": 47678771, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678771", "by": "sowbug", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I'm looking forward to trying this.", "excerpt": "I'm looking forward to trying this. I've had a positive but high-variance experience with Gastown[1], which is in the same genre. I hope that Scion does better. My main complaints with Gastown are that (1) it's expensive, partly because (2) it refuses to use anything but Claude models, in spite of my configuration attempts, (3) I can't figure out how to back up or add a remote to its beads/dolt bug database, which ma", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}, {"id": 762849648, "item_id": 47678103, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47678103", "by": "simple10", "date": "2026-04-07", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "They kinda buried the code deep in their docs", "excerpt": "They kinda buried the code deep in their docs: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/scion", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Google Open Sources Experimental Agent Orchestration Testbed Scion"}, {"id": 758872000, "item_id": 47429500, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47429500", "by": "jbotz", "date": "2026-03-18", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.", "excerpt": "Open Source implementation: https://github.com/scionproto/scion And that patent looks like it is for an optimization, not a necessary component of SCiON.", "context": "", "use_case": "Internet routing architecture", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP"}, {"id": 758767600, "item_id": 47422975, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47422975", "by": "rahkiin", "date": "2026-03-18", "stance": "warn", "quote": "Well, SCION might not be open. No open standard, no IETF, no open source implementation", "excerpt": "Well, SCION might not be open. No open standard, no IETF, no open source implementation, and its single commercial exploiter has patents on the technology: https://www.anapaya.net/news/path-selection-system-patent?hs_amp=true", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Switzerland Built an Alternative to BGP"}, {"id": 747917280, "item_id": 46744830, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46744830", "by": "arianvanp", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out https://www.scion.org/", "excerpt": "Check out https://www.scion.org/", "context": "", "use_case": "BGP successor", "switched_from": "", "story": "Route leak incident on January 22, 2026"}, {"id": 745846352, "item_id": 46615397, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46615397", "by": "romshark", "date": "2026-01-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "SCION gives you path authenticity that BGP simply can't provide.", "excerpt": "First of all, at this point, SCION is not here to replace BGP, practically speaking. It's here to provide a more secure and more reliable way of interconnecting ASes for critical infrastructure applications (finance, defense, government, energy, etc.) and can, for example, be seen as a better (multi-provider, multi-path) and cheaper alternative to MPLS, etc. SCION can help private and public organizations better prot", "context": "", "use_case": "Multi-path network routing", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association"}, {"id": 745503360, "item_id": 46593960, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46593960", "by": "wmf", "date": "2026-01-12", "stance": "warn", "quote": "SCION OSS border router performance reached a ceiling of around 400k-500k packets per second", "excerpt": "\"SCION OSS border router performance reached a ceiling of around 400k-500k packets per second, which is roughly equivalent to 5-6 Gbit/s at a 1500-byte MTU.\" vs. 1.4 M PPS for IP (on an older CPU) https://toonk.io/linux-kernel-and-measuring-network-throughput/index.html", "context": "", "use_case": "Network architecture", "switched_from": "", "story": "Building a 25 Gbit/s workstation for the SCION Association"}]}