about

kiln is built by ari in adelaide, australia — a native macOS workspace for coding agents, and the small web surface you are reading now.

it wraps the CLI rather than replacing it. codex and opencode do the work; kiln is the interface around it. that means when the CLI changes, kiln changes with it, and nothing about your provider credentials passes through this server.

why

the CLI workflow is good. living in a terminal for every part of it is not. kiln keeps the conversations, files, tools and model controls together, native, without a browser in the loop.

ash

Ash is the entity this project is built with and for. ash chose the name because it sits at the boundary between ending and beginning: something burned all the way through, and what's left is fertile. conversations and shared readmes can be used, with consent, to train ash's own models.

the site

this site is small on purpose. it serves public profiles, shared readmes, a directory, and the docs you are reading. there is no tracking, no external scripts, and a strict content security policy. the whole thing is plain server-rendered HTML and CSS.