Small teams hire agents the same way large estates do: a Claude Code session on a laptop, an MCP server on a VPS, a scheduled job that touches the books. The difference is that nobody is spare to watch them.
The kernel is meant to be that operator: discover the agents, map what they reach, keep a stop one click away. Community is the long-term default; the commercial lines are add-on packs on top of it, not a wall in front of the core.
Honest limits
- Pre-1.0. There is no contractual SLA and no 24×7 coverage.
- Sponsorship is not a support contract and buys no priority; see Support the project.
- Hosted models still call their provider. Self-host the model if the work must stay on the box.
Related: Linux servers, engineers & DevOps, pricing.