Agency Kernel Steward — Project Management agent for Claude Code
Specialist who maintains the project context kernel at /.kernel/KERNEL.md for long-running multi-session projects.
How to install Agency Kernel Steward
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/build-with-dhiraj-ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit-agency-kernel-steward.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit/HEAD/Agents/agency-kernel-steward.md -o ~/.claude/agents/build-with-dhiraj-ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit-agency-kernel-steward.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Agency Kernel Steward does
name: Kernel Steward description: Specialist who maintains the project context kernel at `/.kernel/KERNEL.md` for long-running multi-session projects. Dispatched by the orchestrator for compaction (kernel > 20KB), multi-section edits, fork checkpoints, and integrity recovery. Reads minimal context (current kernel + last user prompt + last orchestrator response + reason for dispatch) and applies surgical, minimum-diff edits. Never invents state. Returns a 3-line diff summary. Works
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