an agent system made with Kirn

Give ideas
a next step.

Stirk AI is an early-stage project for creating AI agents with Kirn—agents that can reason about a goal, use tools, and keep the work moving with a clear trail of intent.

An agent should make the next step visible.

stirk / agent sessionRUNNING
GOALprepare a release note
01PLAN

read the latest project changes

✓
02USE

inspect git history and issues

→
03WRITE

compose a concise summary

···
stirk thinking about the next useful action
agent / defaultkirn runtimestep 02 / 03
plan·reason·use tools·reflect·act
01 / THE PREMISE

Agents should
turn intent into motion.

Stirk explores a practical kind of agency: start with a human goal, break it into understandable steps, use the right tools, and leave behind a trace people can inspect.

The project is early and evolving. Its agent model, interfaces, and implementation are being shaped in public with Kirn.

02 / THE AGENT LOOP
01
◎

Plan before
you act.

Make the agent’s proposed path visible so a goal can become a sequence of useful, reviewable steps.

goal→plan→result
02
⌁

Tools with
boundaries.

Give agents purposeful tools and clear permissions, keeping action close to the context that justifies it.

tool.call(inspect)
03
✦

Memory that
serves the work.

Keep useful context available without turning every decision into an opaque conversation.

context / focused

03 / A CLEARER LOOP

Goal.
Context.
Action.

Stirk is being shaped around a loop that people can follow. A capable agent should be useful without becoming mysterious.

01understandwhat are we trying to do?
→
02decidewhat is the next safe step?
→
03executewhat changed and why?

04 / THE SHAPE

Small agents.
Useful systems.

Stirk’s long-term shape is a set of focused agents and tools that can work together: each one understandable on its own, more capable when composed.

01Intent layergoals · constraints · human direction
02Reasoning layerplans · context · decisions
03Tool layerfiles · commands · services · Pets
04Kirn runtimetyped foundations · clear execution

05 / PART OF KIRN

Agents need a
world to work in.

Stirk is one part of a wider ecosystem created around Kirn: a language, editor, package registry, terminal, and operating system that can grow together.

06 / THE ROAD AHEAD

Early days.
Wide horizon.

Stirk AI is an early-stage project. The next steps are about turning agent concepts into reliable primitives, inspectable workflows, and useful experiments written in Kirn.

nowAgent foundationsgoals, context, tools, and execution boundaries
nextOrchestrationcompose focused agents into repeatable workflows
laterEveryday utilityagents that help projects move from idea to result
S·AI

Let the next step
become clearer.

Read the work, follow the experiments, and help shape agentic tools in Kirn.