Kettle
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Type: Software
Organization: Independent
Dates: 2026-present
Topics: Local-first software, Human review, Agent workflows, Plaintext

Summary
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A local review desk where agents prepare work and a person reads, edits, and decides.

Project Notes
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Kettle is a local review desk for work prepared with software agents. It gives that work a stable place to arrive, be read closely, and be changed before anything is accepted. The central idea is deliberately modest: agents can prepare drafts, patches, research, and decisions, but a person remains responsible for reading, editing, and deciding.

The interface brings a curated queue, a plaintext editor, and a project-aware review agent into one sitting. Each project keeps its own desk in a .kettle directory, so the review state travels with the work instead of disappearing into a chat transcript. A local API lets other tools submit and inspect items without turning the desk into a hosted service.

The system is split across a small core service, a desktop application, and editor integrations. That separation keeps the underlying review contract usable beyond any one interface. Kettle is being prepared for public release as source code, documentation, and a working example of the review process it is meant to support.

Original and Related Work
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- No public source link is available.

Canonical page: https://charlesberret.net/projects/#kettle
Plaintext: https://charlesberret.net/projects/kettle.txt