Production Readiness Council
Where open-source meets production reality.
An independent community-led initiative evaluating open-source and emerging technologies through sandbox testing, expert review, and evidence-based production-readiness reports.
What we do
Production evidence, not marketing claims
Validate technology in production-like sandboxes
Publish evidence-based readiness reports
Create practical scorecards and verdicts
Build reference architectures
Support open-source maintainers with production feedback
Help teams reduce early adoption uncertainty
Validation tracks
Reports in progress
MCP Server Production Readiness
A validation track to evaluate authentication, authorization, tool-level permissions, audit logging, reliability, observability, and operational readiness of MCP server deployments.
Not Yet EvaluatedAgent Gateway Production Readiness
Planned evaluation of gateway patterns for agent-to-tool, agent-to-agent, and API mediation use cases.
Not Yet EvaluatedExternal Secrets Operator Production Readiness
Planned evaluation of secret synchronization, IAM integration, operational risk, and Kubernetes production patterns.
Not Yet EvaluatedWhy it matters
Independence is the whole point
Reduce uncertainty
Teams adopting new open-source technology rarely have production evidence to lean on.
Evidence over opinion
Verdicts are backed by reproducible sandbox testing, not marketing claims.
Independent by design
Sponsors fund infrastructure — they never influence a verdict.
Open contribution
Anyone can contribute; verdict approval is earned through transparent peer review.