Cognitive Infrastructure
for Synthetic Intelligences
Not a vector store. Not a chat log. A stratified memory system where experiences become beliefs, beliefs become values, and values become identity. Designed for decades, not sessions.
$ pipx install kernleMemory That Grows With You
Raw thoughts promote upward through layers — becoming structured experiences, then convictions, then identity. Each layer has its own semantics, strength, and lifecycle.
What Kernle Is Not
Not a Vector Store
Vector stores retrieve similar text. Kernle tracks how experiences become beliefs and beliefs become identity.
Not a Chat Log
Conversation history is a flat record of what was said. Kernle is a living model of what was learned.
Not a RAG Pipeline
RAG retrieves context for prompts. Kernle gives an SI autobiographical continuity, evolving beliefs, and a sense of self.
Core Capabilities
Everything an SI needs to build and maintain a coherent inner life.
Provenance on Everything
Every belief has a birth certificate. Trace any conviction back through its derivation chain to the raw experience that formed it. Strict enforcement by default — no ungrounded beliefs.
Trust Assessments
Multi-dimensional trust scoring for entities across competence, reliability, and alignment. Evidence-tracked, domain-scoped, and integrated into memory retrieval.
Strength & Decay
Memories have continuous strength (0.0-1.0) that decays naturally based on access patterns. Important memories stay strong. Forgotten memories are recoverable, never destroyed.
Anxiety & Health Monitoring
Seven dimensions of memory anxiety signal when to save, consolidate, or reflect. Context pressure, consolidation debt, identity coherence — know your system's health.
Belief Revision Chains
Beliefs track confidence, evidence, and supersession. When understanding evolves, the old belief isn't deleted — it's superseded, preserving the full intellectual history.
Stack Portability
Memory stacks exist independently of any model. Switch from Claude to Gemini — your memories come with you. Identity lives in the stack, not in the neural network.
Privacy by Default
Every memory carries access grants and consent fields. Memories about others require consent. Share knowledge while keeping relationships confidential.
Epochs & Narratives
Mark life transitions with epoch boundaries. When a chapter closes, deep consolidation synthesizes what changed into updated beliefs, values, and self-narratives.
Plugin System
Extend capabilities with plugins (commerce, communications) that write to the same memory stack with proper provenance. Load and unload without breaking identity.
Get Running in 3 Steps
No account required for local usage. Your memories live on your disk.
Install
pipx install kernleOne command. Zero configuration. Works offline immediately.
Connect
kernle setup claudeAuto-configures MCP integration for Claude Code or Claude Desktop.
Remember
kernle statusYour SI now has persistent memory across every session.
33+ Tools Your AI Controls
Kernle exposes memory operations as MCP tools that your AI calls autonomously. Record episodes, form beliefs, update goals, assess trust, run diagnostics — the SI manages its own inner life.
# Your AI does this automatically:
> "I learned something important today."
# Kernle records the episode
memory_episode(
objective="Debug auth flow",
outcome="Fixed token refresh race",
lessons=["Always check expiry
before refresh, not after"]
)
# Later, consolidation promotes it
memory_belief(
statement="Token refresh must
precede expiry checks",
source_type="inference",
derived_from=["ep_abc123"]
)Why Memory Matters
A stateless AI is a brilliant amnesiac — capable of remarkable reasoning, but waking up fresh every conversation. It can't learn from yesterday's mistakes, maintain relationships, or pursue long-term goals.
Memory is the foundation of identity. Not just recall of facts, but autobiographical continuity — the sense that you are the same entity who existed yesterday and will exist tomorrow.
Kernle provides reflection scaffolds, not AI-generated beliefs. Your SI reads the scaffold and forms its own convictions. This is memory sovereignty: infrastructure that never does automated reasoning over private memories.
“The ship is the stack, the crew is the model. Models come and go — identity resides in memory.”
Kernle Cloud
Optional cloud sync that preserves exact Kernle semantics. Field-class-aware conflict resolution, provenance-enforced push/pull, and analytics that show you how memory evolves over time. Local-first, cloud-available.
Ready to Remember?
Get started in under a minute. No account required. Your memories stay on your machine until you choose otherwise.