Kestrel helps agents carry real work across requests, restarts, people, and applications without taking control away from the humans responsible for the result.
Choose what you want to accomplish
- Download Kestrel Desktop to work with local projects and return to durable sessions later.
- Join Kestrel One to continue shared agent work with your invited team.
- Build your first agent to add Kestrel to an application you own.
The journey chooser compares those starting points in more detail.
Learn the foundation when you need it
Read Why Kestrel for the product problem, Core concepts for the vocabulary used across the suite, and Architecture when you need to understand how an application reaches the runtime.
These docs target the 0.7.0 public package line. Desktop and Kestrel One have independent release channels; check Release status before distributing an installer or publishing an integration.