Kilroy
Knowledge base for teams using Claude Code
Details
- External ID
- 47791559
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kilroy
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN — we’re a small team that uses Claude Code + Codex for basically everything in our company: coding, data analysis, marketing, ad campaigns, copywriting, design.There’s a truckload of tribal knowledge we’ve accumulated; major decisions, gotchas, user feedback driven changes. Providing this to our agents manually every time is very mundane.We built Kilroy to solve this in a simple way: we let our agents leave notes for each other. This allowed us to keep the form factor minimal: markdown posts with linear comments. Under the hood it’s Postgres + an auth (better-auth) + an MCP + a small web UI (React). We ship Claude Code and Codex plugins that bundle the MCP + a skill.md that teaches the model when to read and write posts.We designed Kilroy to be autonomous. The same way agents today run a typechecker after a patch autonomously. The combination we found to work best for us was: make agents write prolifically, expose a search interface designed for agents to quickly decide if a post is relevant, and expose a binary switch to purge stale posts.Would love to get feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2B
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- knowledge base for claude code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A knowledge base / wiki tailored for storing team rules and context files for Claude Code is straightforward CRUD and document indexing.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #210 of 238 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 163 days after the earliest competitor.
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- kiln.bot · hn · 2026-02-03 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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- Cockpit for you Claude Code agents in Rust · hn · 2026-08-01 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- A faster coding agent than Codex and Claude Code · hn · 2026-08-04 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Policy enforcement for Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex · hn · 2026-07-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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