Keel - A conductor, not an agent loop
keel owns the auditable stopping conditions and the durable memory that AI coding agents don
Keel - A conductor, not an agent loop launched on August 31, 2026 with 6 votes, #1,590 of 23,274 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
keel makes AI coding agents prove their work: you define done, the agent works, keel checks it and keeps a tamper-evident record anyone can verify offline. Plus a PR check and a GitHub Actions runtime.
You say what “done” means. An agent — Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, Kiro — does the work. keel checks it, stops the line when a check fails or you haven't signed off, and keeps a tamper-evident record anyone can verify, even without your repo. Installs a binary called keel . Works with the agent you already use. Coding agents are brilliant at writing code and bad at knowing when to stop. keel is the part that knows: what “done” means, whether the work got there, and who said so. Nothing counts as done until the build and tests are green, a review pass has run, and you've signed off. A gate that fails sends the work back — it never quietly ships. Every approval and verdict is locked into a…from daneb.github.io
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