Introduction

Namzu is an agent kernel for TypeScript. It runs agents the way an operating system runs processes — isolation, scheduling, budgets, signals, durability, and an auditable event stream — and it deliberately ships no user interface, no hosted service, and no favoured model vendor.

In this module you will install the kernel, register a model provider, send your first call, and declare a tool with a typed input schema. Everything you write runs locally on Node; you need no account and no cloud key.

By the end you will have working code and, more usefully, a correct mental model of where the boundary sits: what the kernel owns, and what stays yours.