KaizenEvery change remembered.
Every mistake reversible.
Every session continuous.
Terminal-first AI coding agent. Web UI coming soon.
You work at the Helm.
Single binary. SQLite-only. No cloud backend. Works with any LLM provider.
Effort levels: low · medium · high · ludicrous · auto
You Work at the Helm
Helm is Kaizen's coordination layer. It classifies every request, builds a plan, and delegates to specialist agents - but only after confirming scope for anything non-trivial. You stay in control.
- Helm plans before acting - confirms scope for large changes
- Delegates read tasks to Scout, write tasks to Cody, reviews to Sage, docs to Scribe
- Helm never edits files directly - pure coordination
- Confirmation gate scales by scope: trivial → proceed, large → plan first
See It in Action
Watch Kaizen orchestrate agents, capture checkpoints, and deliver results.
Your Agent Remembers Everything
Kaizen persists decisions, discoveries, and bugfixes in SQLite across every session. FTS5 full-text search with staleness detection keeps your context fresh - no re-learning, no cold starts.
- FTS5 full-text search across all sessions
- Staleness detection flags outdated memories
- Four memory types: decision, bugfix, discovery, architecture
- No vector database required
Every File Write, Checkpointed
Before Kaizen writes or edits any file, it CAS-snapshots the previous state.
Made a mistake? kaizen undo shows a numbered list, diff preview, and y/N confirmation.
No AI mistake is permanent.
- Pre-write CAS snapshots on every file operation
- Branch undo history like git
- Delta compression: bsdiff with chain depth cap
- Named savepoints for manual checkpoints
Parallel Agents, Not Parallel Promises
Helm plans the work and spawns Scout, Cody, Sage, and Scribe as actual OS processes - not threads. Each gets its own TUI tab with independent scrollback. Real parallelism with SQLite file locking for safe co-ordination.
- Helm orchestrator with
create_plan/update_plantools - Scout (search), Cody (write), Sage (review), Scribe (docs) specialists
- Up to 8 agents, 3 concurrent by default (configurable)
- Per-agent TUI tabs - click to reactivate, × to close
- Effort levels: low · medium · high · ludicrous · auto - adjusts turn budgets and thoroughness
- Sage returns structured PASS / FAIL / CONDITIONAL verdicts, triggering Cody retry loops
- Plan-step checkpoints: every completed plan step creates a named savepoint automatically
- Advisory SQLite file locking prevents two agents editing the same file simultaneously
Understands Your Code Structurally
Kaizen builds a tree-sitter symbol index across your entire codebase. The repo_map ranks files by cross-reference score so agents know what matters before reading a single line.
- Tree-sitter symbol index across 18 languages
- repo_map ranks files by cross-reference score - agents prioritise what matters
- Symbol lookups cost ~20 tokens vs ~4,000 for a full file read
- Incremental indexing: auto-reindex on every write, background watcher for external changes
Context That Never Disappears
Other agents summarise old context and discard it. Kaizen replaces tool output with CAS hash
references - the agent can recall any masked content on demand.
Three-level strategy: CAS masking first, LLM summarisation only as fallback.
- CAS-backed masking: tool output stored by SHA-256 hash
recalltool retrieves any masked content instantly- Triggered at 75% of 200K context window
- LLM summarisation only as last resort
"Memory + checkpoints + smart routing: a focused model with full project context can outperform a frontier model with none."
Works With Your Entire Stack
Point Kaizen at any LLM provider - or keep it fully local.
Olla
Run inference locally with Olla, TensorFoundry's open-source LLM router. Zero cloud, zero latency.
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FoundryOS
Pair with FoundryOS for enterprise GPU fleet management and load-aware routing across your entire inference infrastructure.
Learn more →Any API
Connect directly to Anthropic, OpenAI, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Kaizen works wherever your LLM is.
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