Introduction

Kortecx is the distributed runtime for AI agents. Not a model, not a database, not a chat app — the execution kernel beneath them. Describe the work; the runtime takes over.

v0.1.0 ships today, open-source under Apache-2.0, built in the open. It installs as one FFI-free binary — kx — and runs end-to-end on a laptop. The same runtime scales out to a coordinator/worker layer without a rewrite.

What you get

• Exactly-once delivery with transparent recovery. Crash mid-commit and replay: committed work is re-read, not re-run.
• An append-only journal as the single source of truth, with deterministic replay.
• Content-addressed motes — each step is one immutable, content-addressed unit of work.
• A policy-gated CapabilityBroker — the single door to world effects, with a refusal gate that rejects unsafe work up front.
• Local model execution — optional llama.cpp inference behind a trait seam, GGUF by path.
• An embedded gRPC gateway + event WebSocket via kx serve.

Where to next

• Quickstart — prove exactly-once in 60 seconds.
• Install — curl, cargo, or Docker.
• Core concepts — mote, journal, projection, commit protocol, refusal gate, CapabilityBroker.
• kx CLI reference — every command and its flags.
• Recipes — five reusable workflow shapes.
• Architecture — the 39-crate layered DAG and the optional distributed layer.