Use case
Key person leaves.
Chaos follows.
New engineers have no history of why the codebase looks the way it does. Kleio makes decision history queryable from day one.
The cost of lost context
- When a senior engineer leaves, decades of context walk out the door with them.
- Onboarding new team members means weeks of tribal knowledge transfer through synchronous meetings.
- New engineers make decisions that contradict past choices because they don't know the history.
- Bus factor is a known risk that teams acknowledge but rarely address with tooling.
- ADRs and design docs capture the big decisions but miss the hundreds of micro-decisions that shaped the codebase.
How Kleio helps
Queryable decision history
New engineers can ask kleio_ask "why does the auth service look like this?" and get answers grounded in the team's actual decision trail — not outdated docs.
ADR import for bootstrapping
Import existing ADRs (MADR, Nygard, or custom formats) into Kleio to bootstrap your decision history. Then let Kleio capture the ongoing stream automatically.
Provenance trails
Every decision, checkpoint, and work item links back to the PRs, commits, and people involved. New team members can trace the full history of any area of the codebase.
Continuous knowledge capture
Context transfer isn't a one-time event — it's a continuous process. Kleio captures context as the team works, so knowledge is always up to date.
See it in action
An agent plans a migration. Kleio captures every signal along the way.
Agent Plan
Task: Migrate auth from Firebase to Clerk
- 1.Scaffold Clerk provider and session hooks
- 2.Replace Firebase login/signup flows
- 3.Update API middleware for Clerk JWT validation
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