Introduction
Kinotic is a next-generation cloud operating system that abstracts away infrastructure complexity so developers and AI agents can focus on what matters: building great applications.
Vibe Coding at Scale
The rise of AI-assisted development has unlocked a new paradigm -- rapid iteration driven by natural-language intent and intelligent code generation. Kinotic is purpose-built for this paradigm. Whether a human developer or an AI agent is writing the code, Kinotic provides the guardrails, services, and runtime that turn quick prototypes into production-grade systems.
Core Components
- Kinotic Apps -- Applications that run on Kinotic OS. Today, Kinotic Apps are built with TypeScript running on Bun -- you write standard TypeScript for domain models, business logic, and UI, and the platform handles infrastructure, deployment, and scaling. Support for Go, Java, and Python backends is coming soon.
- Kinotic OS -- The cloud operating system that runs your apps. It provides authentication, authorization, persistence, service mesh, observability, and deployment infrastructure out of the box.
- Kinotic OS Cloud -- A fully managed SaaS offering of Kinotic OS. No servers to provision, no infrastructure to maintain.
- Kinotic CLI -- The developer tool that ties it all together. Use it to initialize projects, define entities, generate service code, and deploy applications.
Why Kinotic?
| Concern | Without Kinotic | With Kinotic |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication & Authorization | Wire up OIDC, RBAC, and session management yourself | Built in -- configure once, enforce everywhere |
| Persistence | Choose a database, write migrations, build CRUD endpoints | Define entities, run kinotic sync, get a full service layer |
| Service Mesh | Deploy sidecars, configure routing, handle retries | Automatic service discovery and RPC across the application |
| CI/CD | Maintain pipelines, container registries, rollout strategies | Handled by the platform |
| Observability | Instrument code, deploy collectors, build dashboards | SBOM generation, metrics, and tracing are included |
Rapid prototyping. Go from an idea to a running application in minutes with the CLI and generated services.
Enterprise-ready. Role-based access control, software bill of materials, and full observability mean you never have to rewrite for production.
Internet scale. The platform is designed to scale horizontally from day one.
What These Docs Cover
This documentation walks through everything you need to build and ship a Kinotic App:
- Quick Start -- Scaffold a project and persist your first entity in under five minutes.
- Application Structure -- Understand how organizations, applications, projects, and artifacts fit together.
- Services -- Publish and consume services across your application.
- Persistence -- Define entities, configure indexes, and run queries.
- Security -- Set up authentication and authorization.
- Deployment -- Ship your application to Kinotic OS or Kinotic OS Cloud.
Ready to build something? Head to the Quick Start to create your first Kinotic App.