Overview

Welcome to the Kerno documentation.

What is Kerno?

Kerno is a local CI for your AI coding agent. It runs in your environment and gives your agent a feedback loop to test changes against your real running stack, so the code it ships works as part of your system as intended.

Start here

Get started

Install Kerno in 60s and start validating your code changes.

How Kerno works?

Understand how Kerno works and fits in your agentic code workflow

Changelog

Stay up to date with the latest feature and improvements

Key benefits:

For Developers: Ship faster with AI, without breaking your system.

• Validate every AI-generated change against your real stack before raising a PR

• Never manually write, update, or maintain your tests or test environment.

• Catch issues while you're still working on a feature, not hours later when CI fails

• Avoid lengthy reworks from issues discovered after you've already pushed

For Team: Maintain quality and consistency as your team ships with AI

• Every developer ships to the same standard of reliability.

• Adopt AI across your team without increasing production risk

• Integration coverage that stays current as your codebase evolves, with no manual upkeep

• Increase AI usage across your team without adding QA overhead

Resources

Support

Get help from the Kerno team.

FAQs

Get answers to common questions.

Security

Learn how Kerno handles your code and data.