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Show HN: Kyno – Direction as a first-class primitive for AI agents

Developer cizambra released Kyno, an open-core "coherence control plane" that treats direction as a first-class primitive for AI agents, expressed as a constitution with a mission and principles agents can pull at each step of a workflow. Kyno does not rely on LLMs and provides centralized, versioned direction so agents can exercise judgment while staying aligned with the mission, and it is free to use. The project was posted to Hacker News after almost two months of building and had 1 point and 0 comments at the time of the post.

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Hi folks,

I've been lurking here for a while, and after almost two months of building, I finally dared to share what I've been working on.

It's called Kyno (pronounced KAI-no). It's what I call a coherence control plane: it treats direction as a first-class primitive, expressed as a constitution with a mission and principles that agents can pull at each step of a workflow.

The goal is to enable principled decision-making, bottom-up agency, and self-governance in agents.

Kyno doesn't rely on LLMs. It's a lightweight system that provides centralized, versioned direction so agents can exercise judgment while staying aligned with the mission. It can work independently or complement AI governance tools, pairing boundaries with principles to support greater autonomy over time.

It's free to use and open-core. If you're interested, please take a look, I'd love some feedback.

Thank you all!

[https://cizambra.github.io/kyno/](https://cizambra.github.io/kyno/)

Comments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911977](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49911977)

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