Kernova

Kernova — The Intelligent Systems Runtime

Stop rebuilding AI infrastructure from scratch. Kernova gives you everything you need to build intelligent applications — memory, agents, tools, events, auth, and orchestration — in one cohesive runtime.

The Problem

Every team building AI-powered applications ends up rebuilding the same things:

• How do I give my AI memory?
• How do I let it call functions?
• How do I track what it did?
• How do I control costs?
• How do I coordinate multiple AI agents?
• How do I secure it for production?

Kernova solves all of these with one npm install.

See It In Action

import { Kernova } from '@kernova/sdk';

// Start in one line
const app = await Kernova.create();

// Give it personality
app.agent('assistant', {
  instructions: 'You are a helpful coding assistant. Be concise.',
});

// Give it abilities
app.tool('search_docs', {
  description: 'Search the documentation for relevant information',
  parameters: { type: 'object', properties: { query: { type: 'string' } } },
  execute: async ({ query }) => searchMyDocs(query),
});

// Use it
const { answer } = await app.ask('How do I set up authentication in Express?');
console.log(answer);

// It remembers (persists across restarts)
await app.remember('User is building an Express app', 'longterm');

// Clean up
await app.close();

That’s a working AI application with memory, tool use, and persistence. 5 minutes, not 5 weeks.

Why Kernova?

Without Kernova	With Kernova
Pick an LLM SDK, build a wrapper	app.agent('name', { instructions })
Build a memory system from scratch	app.remember() / app.recall() — built-in, persistent
Implement function calling manually	app.tool() — agents use tools automatically
Build auth, rate limiting, budgets	Built-in: API keys, roles, token limits
No observability into AI decisions	Every action emits events, viewable in Studio
Locked to one model provider	26 providers, including Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, and Vertex AI, switch with zero code changes
Months of infrastructure work	npm install @kernova/sdk — done in minutes

Get Started

npm install @kernova/sdk

Then follow the Getting Started guide →

How It Compares

Node.js     = Runtime for JavaScript
Docker      = Runtime for Containers
Kubernetes  = Runtime for Services
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Kernova       = Runtime for Intelligent Systems

Just as you don’t write your own HTTP server to build a web app, you shouldn’t write your own AI infrastructure to build an intelligent app.