Kerno Core - Give AI production context and reduce technical debt

Hey PH! 👋

I'm Karim, the co-founder of Kerno, and I'm excited to share with you Kerno Core!

👀 The Problem
AI is now writing some code

CTOs are under pressure to accelerate AI adoption

But AI and developers are flying blind.

Production context is missing from the coding experience.

And without it, AI makes poor guesses. Developers lose time.

More technical debt, higher costs, and limited AI Agent utility.

Today's tools make it impossible for developers to obtain real-time production context.

• Complex instrumentation

• Heavy data pipelines

• Noisy dashboards

• Steep learning curves

• Zero IDE native workflows

🎯 Our Mission
Make production context accessible to every developer and every AI assistant as they build.
We’re Kerno.

Introducing: Kerno Core
A lightweight runtime-intelligence engine that creates a tight feedback loop between your live systems, developers, and AI code agents.

No code changes.

No instrumentation.

No messing with pipelines.

✨ Installs in minutes via Helm

• Full runtime coverage out of the box

• Runs lean, scales effortlessly

• Privacy-first, PII stays in your cloud

🧰 What You Get

Kerno Studio
A fast, no-query interface to:

• See how code behaves in production

• Spot dependencies

• Find root causes

• Get up to speed in seconds

No chasing dashboards. No digging. Just insight.

IDE Plugin + MCP Server
For VS Code and Cursor

• See where your code runs, what it touches, how it performs

• Fix exceptions with full context

• Tune slow queries on the spot

• Get intelligent agent guidance powered by real-world behavior

🧩 Why It Matters
Kerno Core is already supercharging teams at fast-growing companies:

• Developers ship faster

• Code agents get smarter

• Incidents go down

• Productivity goes up

Works with or without existing APM and observability tools.

👨‍💻 Built for Modern Teams

• No data leaves your cloud

• Easy CI/CD and Git integration

• Free forever for small teams

• Simple per-node pricing as you grow

🔮 The Future
AI is only as good as the context it gets.
Kerno gives it the one context that matters most: production.

Try Kerno for free at: https://www.kerno.io/
Ship with confidence. Respond with clarity.
We’d love your feedback.

PS: If you need any help, drop us a message on our Slack Community

Very cool—runtime intelligence in this way feels like a glimpse of where software development is headed. Do you see Kerno Core eventually influencing how agents write or self-correct code in real time?

Kerno Core sounds like a smart evolution for modern dev workflows — creating real-time feedback between live systems, developers, and AI agents keeps everything adaptive and in sync. Lightweight, but packed with impact. Excited to see it in action!

This is the future! Amazing job team!

Kerno's UX is a hit with our devs, and it's one of the only tools uniting our sec, prod, and dev teams!

This is such a fun and creative way to showcase a project! I love how you turned it into a public aquarium. What inspired the idea behind using fish and sharks to represent projects? Are there any future plans for customization options for the fish or more interactive features?

Love what you're building, do you have any plans for a JetBrains extension?