Show HN: Kyno – Direction as a first-class primitive for AI agents
1.0 is availableRelease notes One direction.Every agent.Every step. Kyno makes direction a first-class runtime primitive for principled judgment in AI agents. Humans set mission and principles; agents use them to judge tradeoffs and pursue the intended outcome.
- ▪1.0 is availableRelease notes One direction.Every agent.Every step.
- ▪Kyno makes direction a first-class runtime primitive for principled judgment in AI agents.
- ▪Humans set mission and principles; agents use them to judge tradeoffs and pursue the intended outcome.
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Record
| Original publisher | Kyno |
| Canonical URL | https://cizambra.github.io/kyno/ |
| Publication time | Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:35:59 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-30T17:47:01.800Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-30T17:47:01.800Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | VutB5BXd3A7m · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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1.0 is availableRelease notes One direction.Every agent.Every step. Kyno makes direction a first-class runtime primitive for principled judgment in AI agents. Humans set mission and principles; agents use them to judge tradeoffs and pursue the intended outcome. Adapters fetch current direction through MCP before the next step. Kyno works with or without AI governance tools. ›_pip install kynocopy Documentation Python 3.11+ · Available on PyPI 1Direction changed 2Store updated 3Agents pull 4Current version delivered ○ OPERATOR Updates direction Say the hard number first. 10:42:18 KYNO DIRECTION STORE v7 LATEST current ⌕ researchernext stepv7 ≡ plannernext stepv7 </> writernext stepv7 ✓ reviewernext stepv7 Direction flows Agents pull at their next step All four agents are on v7.
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