daneb
Dane Balia is an independent software developer and creator of keel, an open-source Rust harness for AI-assisted software delivery. keel is designed to provide auditable stopping conditions and durable memory across coding-agent sessions without implementing its own model or agent loop.
At a Glance
- Individual developers using AI coding assistants
- Software teams seeking auditable AI-assisted delivery
- Engineering organizations that need repository-specific gates, evidence, and security checks
- Teams using Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or Kiro with their own repositories
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keel
AI Agent Harness for Coders
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Latest News
keel v0.4.10 fixed stale local-trunk selection in gate blast-radius and line-budget diffs.
keel v0.4.9 added `keel driver default <id>` and preserved hand-written keel.toml formatting.
keel v0.4.8 corrected merge approval to select the latest G3 result by generated timestamp rather than hashed run-ID ordering.
keel v0.4.7 fixed G3 lookup so merge approval searches for the latest result for the requested spec.
Products & Services
Open-source Rust command-line harness for AI-assisted delivery. It manages repository knowledge and projections, symbol indexing and retrieval, EARS-based specs, plans and tasks, G0–G4 gates, agent drivers, evidence bundles, and failure-to-lesson promotion. It installs with `cargo install keel-harness` and provides a binary named `keel`.
Market Position
keel positions itself as a conductor and governance harness above coding agents, not as another model adapter, tool registry, or inference loop. Its differentiation is the combination of falsifiable stopping conditions, blast-radius-aware gates, durable cross-tool memory, replayable evidence, and explicit blocked verdicts; it is complementary to agent products such as Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Kiro while competing with lighter-weight agent orchestration and software-delivery harnesses.
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Dane Balia
Creator and maintainer of keel; independent software developer
GitHub identifies the maintainer as Dane Balia, based in Cape Town. His public professional profile lists current Tech Lead experience at Standard Bank Group and previous software leadership roles at Entelect and Alpha International.
Founding Story
keel was started to address a recurring weakness of coding agents: they can write code but do not reliably know when to stop, can weaken tests, expand scope, or lose lessons between sessions. The initial vision was a conductor above existing agents that makes requirements falsifiable, gates auditable, evidence replayable, and learning durable.
Business Model
Revenue Model
Open-source software distributed as a Rust crate through crates.io and installed with Cargo; the official keel materials present a self-hosted CLI rather than a hosted subscription or usage-based service.
Target Markets
- Individual developers using AI coding assistants
- Software teams seeking auditable AI-assisted delivery
- Engineering organizations that need repository-specific gates, evidence, and security checks
- Teams using Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, or Kiro with their own repositories
- Governing AI-assisted code changes from specification through review and merge
- Preventing coding agents from exceeding declared scope or weakening tests
- Maintaining durable engineering context across agent tools and sessions
- Replaying and auditing the commands, evidence, and verdicts behind a change
- Turning recurring implementation failures into machine-checkable repository rules
- Running gated delivery workflows on Rust and other multi-language repositories