KernelDocumentation
Everything you need to run Kernel.
Local quickstart, the architecture, the CLI, the MCP and adapter guides, and how data and privacy work. Rendered straight from the project's docs.
Guides
- Quickstart Run Kernel locally and record your first Work.
- Architecture How the system of record and control plane fit together.
- CLI reference Every ``kernel`` command, its flags and its output.
- Daemon The machine agent that runs sessions and reports them home.
- MCP guide Reaching Kernel from an agent over the Model Context Protocol.
- Handoffs Compiling and accepting a clean handoff between runtimes.
- Artifacts How work products are stored, checksummed and served.
- API The JSON API: authentication, resources and pagination.
- API errors The stable error codes the API answers with.
- Data portability Exporting an organization's data and taking it out.
- Needs You The inbox where work waits on a human decision.