zilla: A lightweight, streaming-native, multi-protocol gateway for AI, APIs, and real-time data

How to install zilla

docker pull ghcr.io/aklivity/zilla:2.6.0

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Quick Facts

About zilla

-- [![Latest Release][release-latest-image]][release-latest] [![Slack Community][community-image]][community-join] [![Artifact HUB][artifact-hub-shield]][artifact-hub] Docs • Quickstart • Examples • Demos • Blog Before moving on, please consider giving us a GitHub star ⭐️. Thank you! Zilla is a streaming-native, multi-protocol gateway for AI, APIs, and real-time data.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with zilla for enhanced workflows:

• kiro-gateway — semantic(0.22)+complementary+shared_fw(anthropic,openai)+similar_pop (59%)
• llmgateway — semantic(0.19)+complementary+shared_fw(anthropic,openai)+similar_pop (58%)
• ccLoad — semantic(0.18)+complementary+shared_fw(anthropic,openai)+similar_pop (57%)
• JoyCode2Api — semantic(0.17)+complementary+shared_fw(anthropic,openai)+similar_pop (57%)
• ds2api — semantic(0.16)+complementary+shared_fw(anthropic,openai)+similar_pop (56%)

zilla alternative? Top 6 similar tools

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• eventcatalog by event-catalog · ⭐ 2.9k

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• kiro-gateway by jwadow · ⭐ 2.3k

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• GoNavi by Syngnat · ⭐ 2.1k

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

Sources & who's responsible:

• SlowMist agent-security taxonomy
• Liu et al., An Empirical Study of Agent Skill Security (2026)
• Our census dataset (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21292799) · Hugging Face mirror
• How we grade: all 42 rules, the source tiers and known limits
• Full methodology & who runs this