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AI-native Envoy-based proxy for agentic apps: agent orchestration via a 4B routing model, smart LLM routing, guardrail filter chains and zero-code OTEL traces. Rust, framework-agnostic.

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Reach for it when multi-agent code is drowning in hidden middleware — intent routing, provider quirks, guardrail hooks, tracing glue. Plano moves all of that out-of-process: agents are plain OpenAI-compatible HTTP servers in any language, orchestration is YAML plus a purpose-built 4B router model. NOT for a quick single-agent demo (it adds an infra hop and Envoy operational surface), and note the catch: the hosted Plano-Orchestrator LLM is free-tier only — production means running the routing models yourself or getting API keys. If you only need provider unification, LiteLLM is lighter.

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The AI-native proxy server and data plane for agentic apps.

Plano pulls out the rote plumbing work and decouples you from brittle framework abstractions, centralizing what shouldn’t be bespoke in every codebase - like agent routing and orchestration, rich agentic signals and traces for continuous improvement, guardrail filters for safety and moderation, and smart LLM routing APIs for model agility. Use any language or AI framework, and deliver agents faster to production.

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Overview

Building agentic demos is easy. Shipping agentic applications safely, reliably, and repeatably to production is hard. After the thrill of a quick hack, you end up building the “hidden middleware” to reach production: routing logic to reach the right agent, guardrail hooks for safety and moderation, evaluation and observability glue for continuous learning, and model/provider quirks scattered across frameworks and application code.

Plano solves this by moving core delivery concerns into a unified, out-of-process dataplane.

Plano pulls rote plumbing out of your framework so you can stay focused on what matters most: the core product logic of your agentic applications. Plano is backed by industry-leading LLM research and built on Envoy by its core contributors, who built critical infrastructure at scale for modern worklaods.

High-Level Network Sequence Diagram: high-level network plano architecture for Plano

Jump to our docs to learn how you can use Plano to improve the speed, safety and obervability of your agentic applications.

[!IMPORTANT] Plano and the Plano family of LLMs (like Plano-Orchestrator) are hosted free of charge in the US-central region to give you a great first-run developer experience of Plano. To scale and run in production, you can either run these LLMs locally or contact us on Discord for API keys.


Build Agentic Apps with Plano

Plano handles orchestration, model management, and observability as modular building blocks - letting you configure only what you need (edge proxying for agentic orchestration and guardrails, or LLM routing from your services, or both together) to fit cleanly into existing architectures. Below is a simple multi-agent travel agent built with Plano that showcases all three core capabilities

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