Guides

The guides are task-oriented: short, do-this-then-that pages for operating the harness once you know its shape. New to keelson? Start with the tutorials instead, then come back here for the operational corners.

Installing and removing keelsonInstall on any platform, upgrade the harness and its ribs, and take it back off cleanly.

Operating the serverStart the server in the foreground or background, check its health, and stop it cleanly.

ConfigurationChoose which providers load and which one chat defaults to, with a config file or environment variables.

GovernanceGate tool calls with approvals, cap a session's spend with budgets, and scrub secrets with redaction.

Authoring workflowsThe authoring loop and the recipes for fan-out, branch, approval gate, and loop-until-done.

Evaluating workflowsWrite a case set, grade a workflow with programmatic or judge graders, and let the compare verdict decide whether a change stays.

Managing ribsInstall, inspect, activate, update, and remove the capability packages that extend the harness.

Managing memoryHow memories get written, how you review them, and how one earns the right to instruct the agent.

Using keelson over MCPExpose your ribs' tools to other agents over the Model Context Protocol, and point a client at the endpoint.