Kinetik

Kinetik is a Rust-implemented scripting language for game engines.

It aims to be small, embeddable, game-focused, beginner-friendly, JSON-native for data, explicit about programmable tables, and optimized for embedding and LLM-assisted development.

Current Status

Production-oriented implementation foundation. The language contract is in SPEC.md; implementation slices are in docs/BACKLOG.md.

Install

The alpha CLI package is kinetik-lang and installs a kinetik-lang binary. See docs/INSTALL.md for the full install guide, exit codes, and first-script walkthrough.

cargo install kinetik-lang

From a source checkout:

cargo install --path crates/kinetik-cli

kinetik-lang check examples/hello.kn
kinetik-lang run examples/hello.kn

Baseline Checks

cargo fmt --check
cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
cargo test --workspace
cargo doc --workspace --no-deps

Read First

AGENTS.md - instructions for coding agents.
SPEC.md - language specification.
docs/constitution.md - project laws and non-negotiable decisions.
docs/PRD.md - product intent.
docs/ARCHITECTURE.md - implementation architecture.
docs/ROADMAP.md - milestone order.
docs/BACKLOG.md - end-to-end implementation slices.
CHANGELOG.md and docs/VERSIONING.md - release notes and alpha compatibility policy.

License

Kinetik is licensed under the MIT License.