Kernl
Your personal AI kernel.
60+ life modules — tasks, contacts, finance, agents, smart home — exposed as MCP tools to any LLM. Your data stays on your machine. Plug it into Claude, ChatGPT, or your own local model.
curl -fsSL https://lifekernl.com/install.sh | sh
Free · Apache-2.0 · No telemetry · No accounts
Verify the script's integrity before running it:
curl -fsSL https://lifekernl.com/install.sh.sha256
sha256sum -c install.sh.sha256 <(curl -fsSL https://lifekernl.com/install.sh)Your entire life, one kernel.
Every module is an MCP tool. Each one is optional, hot-swappable, and runs locally against your SQLite database.
See it in action.
The dashboard, the 3D agents office, and the knowledge graph live.
Real captures coming — meanwhile, see the demos in the repo.
One server. Every AI sees it.
Kernl speaks the Model Context Protocol over both stdio and Streamable HTTP. Any MCP-capable client connects to the same set of tools.
Your AI clients
Kernl
Your stuff
{
"mcpServers": {
"mtw-kernel": {
"command": "bun",
"args": ["run", "bin/mcp-server.ts"],
"cwd": "/path/to/Kernl"
}
}
}
{
"mcpServers": {
"mtw-kernel": {
"type": "streamable-http",
"url": "http://localhost:3086/mcp"
}
}
}
# Streamable HTTP transport (official MCP spec) curl -X POST http://localhost:3086/mcp \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Install in one line.
Detects your OS, downloads the right package, and opens the dashboard.
curl -fsSL https://lifekernl.com/install.sh | shcurl -fsSL https://lifekernl.com/install.sh | shsudo apt install ./kernl_*.debsudo dnf install ./kernl-*.rpmirm https://lifekernl.com/install.ps1 | iexgit clone https://github.com/fastslack/kernl
cd Kernl
cp .env.example .env
docker compose up -d --buildRuns kernel + dashboard + Neo4j + WhatsApp bridge. Dashboard at http://localhost:3086.
After install, the dashboard opens at http://localhost:3086. Configure LLM keys via ~/.config/kernl/.env.
Why run it yourself?
Privacy by default
Your tasks, contacts, finance, health data — all in a SQLite file on your machine. Nothing leaves unless you tell it to.
Extensible by design
Every module is a plugin. Drop a .mtwext bundle in, or write your own — same MCP surface.
Fast & light
Bun runtime, statically linked. Starts in under a second. ~150 MB on disk.
Truly open
Apache-2.0 license. Fork it, sell plugins on top, build a competing distro — that's the point.
Local-first LLMs
LM Studio and Ollama work out of the box. Run agents on your own GPU.
Federated, not centralized
Mesh with other instances over the Matware mesh protocol. Your phone, your laptop, your VPS — same kernel.
Ready to take your life off the cloud?
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