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Enterprise AI infrastructure company TrueFoundry has launched TrueForgean open-source agent harness designed to help enterprises build, deploy, debug and govern production AI agents without being locked into a single model provider.

Positioned as an alternative to Claude Managed Agents, TrueForge allows organisations to run agents on any model or Model Context Protocol (MCP) server. TrueFoundry claims the platform can reduce total agent operating costs by 50%while giving enterprises greater control over their AI infrastructure.

The launch comes as open models such as GLM-5.2 increasingly compete with proprietary frontier models at lower costs. However, managed agent platforms can still tie enterprises to a provider’s models, infrastructure and pricing.

TrueFoundry said the shift from AI prototypes to customer-facing products is increasing demand for infrastructure capable of managing persistent sessions, tool credentials, execution environments, context, human approvals, access policies and spending.

“Teams shouldn’t have to choose between a great agent-building experience and owning their AI stack,” said Nikunj Bajaj, Co-founder and CEO of TrueFoundry. “With TrueForge, you get that great experience, open source, on any model, with real enterprise governance, but at a fraction of the cost.”

TrueForge routes model calls and MCP interactions through TrueFoundry’s AI Gateway. This allows enterprises to apply budget controls, rate limits and security guardrails across agent workflows. Teams can also deploy the platform on their own infrastructure, use their own models and MCP servers, and select models based on cost, latency or performance requirements.

The platform supports OpenAI, Anthropic and more than 20 additional models. It also includes over 40 built-in tools, sandboxed execution, human-approval workflows, large-context handling, generative UI and web search.

Enterprises including Automatiq and NetApp are already running agentic workloads on TrueForge. Robert Rubin, Senior Director of Platform Engineering at NetApp, said the platform has changed how quickly the company can move an agent from an idea to production at scale.

Founded in 2021 by IIT Kharagpur alumni Anuraag Gutgutia, Abhishek Choudhary and Nikunj BajajTrueFoundry is backed by Peak XV’s Surge, Intel Capital, Eniac Ventures and Jump Capital. The company has teams in India, San Francisco and Paris.

TrueForge’s open-source version is available on GitHub and can be used with a team’s own model API keys. TrueFoundry is also offering a hosted version with usage-based pricing for organisations that do not want to manage the underlying infrastructure.