The people behind kārya.
Karya is an open-source coding agent for the terminal. It lets an AI model work on your code with real autonomy, inside an OS sandbox, with every turn undoable and every budget enforced. We started building it in September 2026 in Prayagraj, India.
- founded
- September 2026
- based in
- Prayagraj, India
- team
- 2 co-founders
- funding
- Bootstrapped, no outside funding yet
- entity
- Not yet incorporated; operated by the founders
What we are building
Coding agents today either ask permission for every command or run with none. Karya takes a third path: commands run freely inside a sandbox with the network off, edits show a diff before they land, and any turn can be rolled back. Sessions are stored as plain logs on your machine and can follow you to another one, end-to-end encrypted.
Karya is bring-your-own-key: you use your own API key with the model provider you choose and pay that provider directly. Gemini works today, and Claude through the Anthropic API is the next provider we are adding. There is no Karya account and no markup on tokens. Karya is pre-1.0; the roadmap shows what works today.
Founders
Contact
Write to prateek@usekarya.dev or lokesh@usekarya.dev. Bugs and feature requests are welcome as GitHub issues.
Karya · Prayagraj, India