Kineti

Kineti gives AI coding agents local governance tools: a self-reported spend cap, a registered rollback stack, and workspace-bound test receipts.

What you can do

Kineti runs as a local MCP server exposing 14 tools: 13 governance tools plus a plain-talk helper. It keeps a 13-stage project state record, a newest-first transactional undo stack of inverses the agent registered, and test receipts that pair local exit codes with SHA-256 workspace fingerprints. It also maintains a hash-chained spend ledger with a default $50 ceiling that exits with code 3 near the recorded limit, plus a local dashboard.

When to use it

Worth adding when you want a coding agent to log its own token spend against a cap, register rollback steps it can undo, and leave local evidence that tests ran against the current workspace. It suits developers running agents such as Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode, Codex or Antigravity who want a local record of a run.

Requirements

Local process over stdio, installed from npm as kineti and started with npx. Needs Node.js 18 or later and Bun 1.1 or later installed for governance execution. No accounts, API keys, environment variables or headers are declared. Editor MCP configuration is added manually; kineti init installs skills and hooks but not the MCP server config.