Getting Started

Kairn is a local context governor for AI coding agents.

It watches the shape of a task, the repo index, session state, file roles, and retrieval confidence. Then it chooses whether to emit context, shrink it, stay silent, or ask for one missing piece of evidence.

Best first path

For private beta, the most-tested path is Codex CLI session mode:

kairn setup wizard
kairn codex

Use MCP when you want Kairn inside an editor or agent UI instead of a terminal session.

What to expect

Kairn may stay quiet. Silence means the governor decided extra context would probably add noise or cost more than it saves.