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# Overview

### 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

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><i class="fa-rocket-launch" style="color:$info;">:rocket-launch:</i> <strong>Get started</strong></td><td>Install Kerno in 60s and start validating your code changes.</td><td><a href="/pages/kAICztLz8iwtHgPEeoNc">/pages/kAICztLz8iwtHgPEeoNc</a></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-lightbulb" style="color:$info;">:lightbulb:</i> <strong>How Kerno works?</strong></td><td>Understand how Kerno works and fits in your agentic code workflow</td><td><a href="/pages/PJ8SzP34qRB38QJco8SF">/pages/PJ8SzP34qRB38QJco8SF</a></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-arrows-turn-to-dots" style="color:$info;">:arrows-turn-to-dots:</i> <strong>Changelog</strong></td><td>Stay up to date with the latest feature and improvements</td><td><a href="/pages/wtgYBfzUSrFAwkeQQnME">/pages/wtgYBfzUSrFAwkeQQnME</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

### 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

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><i class="fa-comment-question" style="color:$info;">:comment-question:</i> <strong>Support</strong></td><td>Get help from the Kerno team.</td><td><a href="https://discord.gg/UncXsxUz">https://discord.gg/UncXsxUz</a></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-lightbulb" style="color:$info;">:lightbulb:</i> <strong>FAQs</strong></td><td>Get answers to common questions.</td><td><a href="/pages/zJKOG1wiwndWnBdcDH4o">/pages/zJKOG1wiwndWnBdcDH4o</a></td></tr><tr><td><i class="fa-shield-check" style="color:$info;">:shield-check:</i> <strong>Security</strong></td><td>Learn how Kerno handles your code and data.</td><td><a href="/pages/a868OKb6TDxWBmJlCO1H">/pages/a868OKb6TDxWBmJlCO1H</a></td></tr></tbody></table>