kild

kild v2 — a ground-up rewrite, under active development. kild was rebuilt from Rust to TypeScript on bun (engine + CLI) with a Tauri + SvelteKit cockpit. Expect churn while v2 stabilises. The original Rust implementation (v1) is preserved at the v1-rust tag and the archive/rust branch.

A developer cockpit for orchestrating coding-agent teams across projects. The human plans and reviews; agents (pi) automate the coding. kild gives observability and steering — a native UI to watch and steer many agents at once, plus a CLI any command-line agent can drive.

• Engine (engine/, TypeScript on bun) — the agent runtime, daemon, and CLI. Runs each agent session in its own subprocess on the pi coding-agent SDK (native pi auth, real concurrency), and exposes them over HTTP + WebSocket.
• Cockpit (app/, Tauri + SvelteKit) — a native window that talks to the engine over HTTP + WebSocket. The only Rust is the thin Tauri shell.

pi owns the agent runtime (providers, sessions, compaction, auth); kild owns orchestration (sessions, worktrees, projects, the cockpit). We don't reimplement what pi already does.

Run

cd app && bun install && bun run tauri dev   # builds the engine, opens the window

The engine on its own:

cd engine && bun install && bun run dev      # HTTP + WS on 127.0.0.1:4517
bun run cli -- run --model anthropic/claude-haiku-4-5 "what files are here?"

pi must be on PATH and authenticated (~/.pi/agent/auth.json).

See CLAUDE.md for principles and architecture.