Kilter CLI
Production-grade CLI for agentic platforms
Modern agentic applications need 10+ services — workflows, event streams, auth, observability, vector search — but almost nobody has sufficient experience for this. Developers pick what they know, not what they need. And so we only build toy apps or dated SaaS apps via Lovable and Vercel. Kilter fixes that. All of Kubernetes, available agentically, ready to deploy into safe, secure, REAL infrastructure.
How it works
Detect
Auto-detect your app's language, framework, and imports.
Compose
Resolve service dependencies and wire configurations.
Orchestrate
Hot-reload, logs, health checks — all via one CLI.
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How Kilter compares to the tools you already know.
| Feature | Kilter | Docker Compose | Tilt | Vercel / Railway / Render | Skaffold |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Production Kubernetes | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Pre-composed platform services | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Opinion engine (auto-wiring) | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| AI-native CLI | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| Enterprise target (k8s) | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Local dev parity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| 37+ curated services | ✓ | — | — | — | — |
| 2 min to full stack | ✓ | — | — | ✓ | — |
AI-native by design
The CLI is an agent interface. Every command returns low-token structured text that AI agents can parse, reason about, and act on.
Agent discovery
Claude Code discovers Kilter capabilities through the CLI surface.kilter catalog lists available services.kilter doctor validates compositions.
Stack composition
Agents compose stacks by running kilter add, scaffold code with kilter run, and validate with kilter doctor.
Resource efficiency
A full Kilter platform — 17 pods with auth, workflows, events, tracing, and storage — runs in 3.2 GB. Supabase alone consumes 2–4 GB for just a database + auth layer.
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