Agentic Infrastructure for Research & Productivity. Built for Transparency. Designed to Stay Local.

Cerno is an open-source initiative creating local-first tools for advanced workflows powered by LLMs and autonomous agents.

Our mission: Empower developers, researchers, and analysts with transparent, customizable, and vendor-agnostic tools that run on your terms, right from your machine.

A local-first workspace for deep, multi-step research with autonomous agents. Plan, execute, audit — step-by-step.

A self-hosted engineering intelligence layer for your codebase. Helix ingests your repository, builds a Merkle-hashed graph of your code, and unlocks deep architectural understanding — from dependency maps to living documentation and AI-powered code navigation. Refactor confidently, accelerate onboarding, generate tests and documentation instantly, and explore complex systems through an intelligent code graph — all running locally with privacy by design.

High-performance RAG system for intelligent document Q&A with hybrid retrieval, GPU acceleration, and citation-backed answers. Upload docs, ask questions, get precise responses.

An autonomous AI productivity assistant designed to help manage:

• Email & Calendar (Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook)
• Task Planning & Notes
• Code Automation
• Data Analysis & File Tools

Planned integrations include:

• ✅ Todoist
• ✅ Calendly
• ✅ AWS Lambda

Built with a local-first philosophy and extensibility at its core.

We’re building a broader ecosystem around Cerno’s agentic core:

• Cerno Flow – Visual drag-and-drop interface for task orchestration.
• Cerno Bench – Benchmarks for agent workflows across local/cloud LLMs.

• Report bugs or suggest ideas: GitHub Issues
• Want to contribute? See our Contributing Guide
• Chat with us: GitHub Discussions

All repositories in the Cerno organization are open-source under the MIT License.

Transparent. Local-first. Auditable. The future of agentic tooling is open — help us build it.