Change agents. Keep context.
Use different runtimes for different jobs. Shared memory and project files stay with your Kern host.
A persistent, governed home for AI agents
KernYour cloud agent swarm. Persistent. Governed. Improving over time.
Kern gives Codex, Claude Code, and other agents a permanent home where they can work continuously, remember what they learn, and build on past experience, all within boundaries you control.
Deploy your own$git clone infiloop2/kern
Kern governed boundary5 agentsuptime 6d 04h0 policy escapes
Codexbuildingrunning · 4h
Claude Coderesearchingrunning · 6d
Codextestingrunning · 12m
Claude Codeadvertisingready · 2d
Hermesscheduled postnext · 06:00
- Persistentalways onAgents keep working after you close the laptop, and come back to work already in progress.
- Improvingkeeps memoryEvery session trace in one place. Kern harvests the learnings into memory the whole swarm can reuse.
- Governedhard boundaryEvery agent and tool works through one network policy boundary you control.
Your infrastructure. Your intelligence.
Build your own multi-agentic system.
Choose the agents. Give them recurring jobs. Let them build on each other’s work. Kern brings memory, tools, and secure internet controls to a host you own.
You set the directionChat, apps, and schedules. Control from your laptop or phone.
Your choice of agents
- Codex
- Claude Code
- Grok
- Hermes
One shared foundation
Swarm memoryFiles & projectsSearchable historySchedules & apps
Your rules at the boundaryAllowed work proceeds. Gated actions wait for your approval.
Explore the boundary ↗Model providersConnected accountsOpen internet
Own the accumulated work.
Self host to keep memory, history, and files on infrastructure you control. Choose which providers and services receive access.
Set the rules. Let work run.
Agents work freely inside the host. Network policy and an approval queue govern access beyond it.
Command center
Manage the work, not the terminals
One calm place to direct every agent, from deep work on your laptop to quick decisions on your phone.
Laptop or phone
Watch work that started days ago
Open the same command center wherever you are. Every session, its history, and what it is doing right now are already there when you arrive.
Only when it matters
Step in at the decisions
Drop into a session when judgment is needed, clear what is waiting on you, then leave it running without keeping a terminal or yourself attached.
Outcomes, not transcripts
Work through rich apps
Let agents turn recurring work into durable, purpose-built interfaces, so you read a queue or a board instead of scrolling a conversation.
Live agent work
Drop into work already in motion
Read the thread, inspect live activity, and steer the agent without staying attached to a terminal.
Real product demo videoBring the agents you already use
Kern is the host, not the harness.
Kern does not replace Codex, Claude Code, Grok CLI, or Hermes, and it does not decide how they reason or divide up work. It gives them somewhere to live: a persistent environment, shared memory, real tools, and one boundary around all of it. Bring the agent and the subscription you already pay for.
Codex
Run your existing Codex account inside the host and use your subscription with OAuth.
Claude Code
Run Claude Code inside the host and use your Claude subscription with OAuth.
Hermes
Run a variety of open-source models under the same host contract. No lock-in to a single model provider.
Grok CLI
Run Grok CLI inside the host and use your Grok subscription through xAI device login.
Choose your trust boundary
Two ways to run Kern
Kern is live today: deploy it yourself from source or have it fully hosted on Kern Cloud. Either way, the boundary is yours.
Full self hosting
Deploy from source to your own AWS account and access via your own Cloudflare domain. Your data and keys never live on someone else's platform.
- Runs in your AWS account, and access through your own configured domain
- You run deploys, upgrades and manage all configuration
- Completely free, pay your own infra and AI bills
- Community support
Hosted on Kern Cloud
We provide all the infrastructure and run Kern for you on Kern Cloud, with integrated billing.
- One click, nothing to install or manage, runs on Kern Cloud
- Access through a personal domain configured for you
- Integrated billing for infra, pay your own AI provider
- Support included
Need a little help?
Find your use case. Build your first agent.
Work directly with Kern’s builder to discover useful workflows, set up your agents securely, or build something custom.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
Real work with real accounts: read and send email, manage your calendar, search the web, write code against your repositories, and post to social accounts as tools land. Apps turn that into outcomes: builders, social media managers, shorts studios, and research desks, with more on the way. Sensitive actions always wait for your approval.
Yes. Every agent keeps standing notes of its own, and the whole swarm shares one memory that each agent searches before it starts work and writes back to when it learns something worth keeping. Files, projects, and past threads stay on the host too, so an agent picks up last week's work instead of being briefed again.
Codex, Claude Code, Grok CLI, and Hermes today. Bring the accounts you already have, or run open-source models under the same host contract. Kern is a host, not a harness: it does not replace your agent, it runs it.
On an EC2 instance in AWS. Deploy it from source in your own account, or run it one-click on Kern Cloud.
Yes. The complete host is developed in the open at github.com/infiloop2/kern under the Business Source License 1.1. You can read every line that enforces the boundary, audit it, and self-host it.
Kern gives you multiple layers to reduce that risk. Every outbound internet request passes through a fail-closed policy boundary with configurable domain rules, provider-aware guards, approvals, and audit logs. You decide how much access each agent gets and which actions require review, so you can set the boundary to match your threat model.
Only after you approve them. Sensitive actions hold in a queue with the exact payload disclosed: the recipient, the subject, the repository, the event. The agent keeps working on everything else while decisions wait for you. Approval is a queue, not a modal.
Self-hosting is free forever: you pay only your own AWS, AI subscription, and tool API bills. One-click Kern Cloud folds infrastructure, AI, and tools into a single integrated bill.