---
title: "Cloud Agents"
description: "On-demand and scheduled AI agents for Kubernetes analysis, cost optimization, security auditing, and remediation."
diataxis: how-to
applies_to:
  product: "nirmata-ai-agents"
audience: ["platform-engineer"]
last_updated: 2026-04-16
url: https://docs.nirmata.io/docs/ai/cloud-agents/
---


Cloud Agents are AI-powered workflows you launch on-demand or on a schedule from Nirmata Control Hub. Each agent runs as a short-lived job, executes a specific analysis or remediation task against a target cluster or resource, and produces a detailed report — with no persistent infrastructure required.

Unlike [Service Agents](/docs/ai/service-agents/), which run continuously inside your cluster, Cloud Agents are ephemeral: they spin up, do their work, and terminate. You get the results without any long-running footprint.

## Use Cases

| Task | Example Agents |
|------|----------------|
| **Cost optimization** | Identify over-provisioned workloads, right-size resources, flag unused namespaces |
| **Security auditing** | Scan RBAC configuration, detect privilege escalation paths, audit image provenance |
| **Compliance** | Generate compliance reports mapped to CIS, NIST, or SOC 2 controls |
| **Policy recommendations** | Analyze cluster state and recommend Kyverno policies to apply |
| **Workload troubleshooting** | Diagnose failing pods, OOMKills, and misconfigured resource limits |
| **Remediation** | Apply approved fixes to policy violations across namespaces |

## How They Work

1. **Select an agent** from the Agent Catalog — each entry describes what the agent does, what inputs it needs, and what cluster permissions it requires.
2. **Provide inputs** — choose a target cluster, namespace, or other parameters specific to the agent.
3. **Launch or schedule** — run immediately, or configure a recurring schedule (hourly, daily, weekly, or custom cron).
4. **Review results** — each completed run produces a structured report you can view, share, or download. Live logs are available for runs in progress.

## Agent Types

| Type | Description |
|------|-------------|
| **Workflow** | Multi-step agents where steps execute sequentially or in parallel. Progress is visible step-by-step in real time. |
| **Task** | Single-operation agents that execute one focused function and return a report on completion. |

## Trigger Sources

Runs can be initiated in multiple ways — not just manually:

| Source | Description |
|--------|-------------|
| Manual | Launched directly from the Agent Catalog |
| Schedule | Triggered automatically by a configured recurring schedule |
| Copilot | Launched by the Nirmata Control Hub Copilot in response to a request |
| Webhook | Triggered by an external event (e.g., a GitHub PR or Jira issue) |
| Event | Triggered as a follow-on from another agent run |

## Using Cloud Agents

Cloud Agents are managed from **Agent Hub** in Nirmata Control Hub.

[Go to Cloud Agents in Agent Hub →](/docs/control-hub/agent-hub/cloud-agents/)