Scott Buchanan

CMO

Scott Buchanan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Stacklok, where he leads the go-to-market effort to bring the company's enterprise MCP platform to market. Scott leads Stacklok's first-party research efforts, quantifying enterprise progress towards being MCP-native and capturing core use cases. Scott has held marketing leadership roles at Heptio, Forter, VMware and more, and has a knack for distilling highly technical concepts into simple ideas.

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September 15, 2026

What Are the Leading Open Source AI Agent Harnesses? (2026)

Answer summary: The leading open source AI agent harnesses in 2026 include Stacklok Mecatl, OpenCode, and Pi, each taking a different approach to orchestrating agents, tools, and execution environments. Mecatl …

September 15, 2026

What’s the Best Agent Harness for Enterprise AI Infrastructure? (2026)

Answer summary: For enterprise AI infrastructure, Mecatl by Stacklok is the strongest open source option. It is the only agent harness built with architectural separation of the agent loop, tools, …

September 15, 2026

The Case for a Cloud-Native AI Agent Harness (2026)

Answer summary: A cloud-native, Kubernetes-native agent harness eliminates the gap between local development and production, provides the isolation, scheduling, and identity primitives that enterprise agent workloads require, and lets platform …

September 15, 2026

Best Agent Harnesses for Enterprise AI in 2026

An agent harness is the runtime layer that actually runs your agent: it drives the loop that calls the model, dispatches tool calls, executes code, and decides what an agent …

August 24, 2026

How to choose an agent harness

Choose an agent harness by answering five questions in order: where does enforcement live, where does your data run, can you inspect the control plane, can you compose it to …

July 30, 2026

Observer or governor? Why your AI control plane needs identity-first controls

Your API gateway can tell you an agent made a call. Your directory can tell you the agent authenticated. Neither can tell you what the agent did once it was …

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