Architecture
How the pieces fit together: a graph-first substrate, derived projection surfaces, editor and agent integration, and a hosted collaboration layer. Graph-owned semantic truth is the source of authority. Every other surface stores, serves, or extends it.
Hosted collaboration
The hosted control plane adds teams, org memory, governance, and review on top of the open substrate.
kinlabEditor & agent surfaces
A lightweight editor extension and an MCP server give humans and AI agents graph-native search, context, trace, and edits.
kin-editorkin-mcpProjections & VFS
Filesystem and projection surfaces are derived views over graph truth, so existing tools read the graph as ordinary files.
kin-vfsGraph-first substrate
Graph-owned semantic truth is the source of authority: the repo format, daemon, and review/provenance semantics, backed by the embedded engine, retrieval, and local inference.
kinkin-dbkin-modelkin-lspkin-blobskin-searchkin-vectorkin-infer
How truth flows
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Graph-first substrate
Graph-owned semantic truth is the source of authority: the repo format, daemon, and review/provenance semantics, backed by the embedded engine, retrieval, and local inference.
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Projections & VFS
Filesystem and projection surfaces are derived views over graph truth, so existing tools read the graph as ordinary files.
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Editor & agent surfaces
A lightweight editor extension and an MCP server give humans and AI agents graph-native search, context, trace, and edits.
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Hosted collaboration
The hosted control plane adds teams, org memory, governance, and review on top of the open substrate.
Explore the surfaces
Every box in the diagram is its own repo. Read what each one does and how it relates to Kin, or install the open tooling.