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Kernova

Step 1: Project Setup

Create the Project

Terminal window
npx create-kernova-app coding-team
cd coding-team

When prompted:

  • Name: coding-team
  • Template: default

Install Dependencies

Terminal window
npm install

Set Your API Key

Create .env.local:

Terminal window
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-your-key-here

Verify It Works

Terminal window
kernova dev

You should see:

🧠 Kernova Framework Server
├─ Agents:  1 discovered
├─ Tools:   0 registered
├─ Teams:   0 configured
├─ Memory:  0 namespaces
└─ Config:  coding-team v1.0.0

Stop the dev server (Ctrl+C). We’ll rebuild the agent structure from scratch.

Project Structure

Delete the default agent and create our structure:

coding-team/
├── agents/
│   ├── senior-dev.ts           # Lead agent
│   ├── frontend-dev.ts         # Frontend specialist
│   ├── backend-dev.ts          # Backend specialist
│   ├── tester.ts               # QA agent
│   └── teams/
│       └── dev-team.ts         # Team definition
├── app/
│   ├── page.tsx                # Chat UI
│   └── layout.tsx
├── .env.local
├── kernova.config.ts
├── package.json
└── tsconfig.json

Update the Config

Edit kernova.config.ts:

import { defineConfig } from '@kernova/framework';


export default defineConfig({
  name: 'coding-team',
  description: 'Multi-agent coding team that collaborates on development tasks',
  version: '1.0.0',


  model: {
    provider: 'openai',
    model: 'gpt-4o',
    temperature: 0.4, // Moderate creativity for code
  },
});

Continue to Step 2: Define the Agents →