# Kairos
> Two free tools for autonomous software engineering: Kairos (an autonomous developer that runs Claude Code against your repo) and backant-memory (local-first, repo-scoped memory for AI agents).

URL: https://backant.io
Docs: https://docs.backant.io
GitHub: https://github.com/backant-io
Discord: https://discord.gg/6GNzK2SAeC

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## Kairos — autonomous developer

Runs Claude Code against a repo continuously: picks its own tasks from issues/CI/production state, builds small PRs, verifies deploys, remembers outcomes. Free; Google sign-in for auth. Claude Code usage costs remain the user's own.

Install: `npx backant-kairos`  (first run: auth, project analysis, daemon start)
Attach in a repo: `backant`
Daemon: `backant start` / `backant stop` / `backant watch` / `backant status`

Access control (.backant.toml at repo root):
- [permissions] merge, merge_migrations, create_issues, create_epics, strategic_work, modify_dependencies, modify_ci, modify_infrastructure, security_fixes (booleans)
- [scope] include / exclude (path globs)
- [branches] target, prefix
- [behavior] max_cycles_per_day, max_cost_per_cycle, min_sleep, deploy_verification
- [gates] actions (always wait for human), timeout_minutes, timeout_policy = "requeue" | "auto_deny"

Steering from chat (Hermes addon): focus, pin, ban, goal, pause, resume; approval gates; journaled reasoning. See https://backant.io/blog/kairos-hermes

Requirements: macOS/Linux, Claude Code, GitHub CLI, Docker.