Show HN: Kern – Agents that do the work and show it

Category: ai-ml

Tags: ai-agents, autonomous-agents, local-ai, memory-management, multi-channel

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Kern is a TypeScript-based agent framework that runs autonomous workers with persistent memory across multiple channels (terminal, web, Telegram, Slack, Matrix) and can generate self-updating dashboards. It's interesting because it emphasizes a single unified session across all interfaces, hierarchical memory compression for long-term context, and local-first operation with optional cloud LLMs.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/oguzbilgic/kern-ai · TypeScript · 34 stars

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