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Ikenga

Engines

Placeholder. Full engine authoring guide lands once the Engine interface is locked.

An engine is a pkg that implements the Engine interface from @ikenga/contract. The shell is engine-optional: it boots and runs the kernel without one, and any number of engines can be installed side by side.

Available adapters:

  • engine-claude-code — wraps the user’s local claude binary via an ACP server. Default.
  • engine-noop — reference adapter that returns canned responses. Useful for tests and demos.