Kepler by GitKraken
Shares rank 21 of 26 agent orchestrators by recommenders
Recommended as a polished, good-looking option for working with AI coding agents, though reviewers note obvious gaps, limited integrations and clunky workflows.
Recommended as a polished, good-looking option for working with AI coding agents, though reviewers note obvious gaps, limited integrations and clunky workflows.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 6
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 6 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Polished, good-looking interface
“seemed like the second most polished option I tried, but there are obvious gaps”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities” “Good looking tools, but not professional GIS tools.”
Comment from 18 Jun 2026 in “Map Clustering Is Not My Favorite”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Limited integrations beyond ticketing
“Kepler only knows about GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Trello and Linear”
Comment from 17 Aug 2026 in “Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub” “focuses a bit too much on the ticketing integration”
Comment from 12 Aug 2026 in “Zed: Delta”
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The four most recommended other agent orchestrators, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gas Town | 95 | 212 | 31% | 10 | 1 mo3 owners | — |
| Conductor | 58 | 25 | 70% | 11 | — | Approved |
| Superset | 33 | 16 | 67% | 8 | 2 mo4 owners | Approved |
| Scion by Google | 28 | 32 | 47% | 8 | — | — |
| Kepler by GitKrakenThis page | 6 | 2 | 75% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“but their UI felt like vibe coded slop”
“the same happened with Kepler”
“this also happened with Kepler by the GitKraken folks”
“Kepler only knows about GitHub, GitLab, Jira, Trello and Linear”
“seemed like the second most polished option I tried, but there are obvious gaps”
“I also quite like driving OpenCode through something like Kepler / Paseo”
“both Paseo and Kepler felt a little bit clunky especially around sub-agents and workflows”
“focuses a bit too much on the ticketing integration”
“Good looking tools, but not professional GIS tools.”
“We're building the trust layer for AI in high-stakes industries.”
“94% accuracy rate which in financial services is a far cry from acceptable without a human-in-the-loop verifier”
“Every actual value flows through deterministic code pipelines with provenance metadata back to source.”
“If it can help you, you're welcome to use what we use for free”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.