Philosophy
No magic buttons
Kraftverk is a performance engineering instrument — not a PC cleaner, not a placebo FPS booster, not a cloud service. Every kept change is measured, validated, explainable, and restorable.
If a setting cannot improve measured performance, efficiency, stability, latency, thermal behavior, or the instrumentation used to decide, it does not belong in the product. No fabricated telemetry. No silent irreversible tweaks.
Comparison
Instrument vs placebo “optimizer”
Most consumer “PC optimizers” sell certainty without evidence. Kraftverk is built the other way around.
| Dimension | Kraftverk | Typical placebo optimizer |
|---|---|---|
| Evidence | Real workloads (KraftBench) + statistical compare | Marketing scores, timers, or vague “boost” |
| Changes | Allow-listed, reversible, journaled | Registry sweeps, cleaners, one-way tweaks |
| Honesty | Unsupported sensors marked unsupported | Invented temps, FPS, or health meters |
| Hardware | Hard AMD-only gate (amd-only-v1) |
Anything that installs |
| Outcome | Keep or revert with explainable receipts | Permanent “optimization” with no rollback story |
Evidence loop
Measure → Experiment → Validate → Improve
Product framing is a closed loop. Search always rolls back during exploration; only validated accepts remain applied.
- 01 Measure KraftBench runs real deterministic work with checksums where practical.
- 02 Experiment Propose reversible parameter diffs under safe-mode allow-lists.
- 03 Validate Stability gates and comparison classes vs baseline samples.
- 04 Improve Commit what helps; restore what does not. Learn and repeat.
Kraft Index
A composite you can explain
The Kraft Index is a weighted blend of category scores from KraftBench. A baseline run’s mean raw composite maps to 10,000; later runs are ratios against that baseline.
Illustrative cascade below — weights are the documented M1 defaults. GPU weight is zero until a real backend exists (no placeholder dilution).
Later: index = (raw / baseline_raw) × 10000. Missing categories renormalize over present weights.
Hardware
AMD systems only
Policy amd-only-v1 is a hard execution gate across CLI, desktop, SDK, agent, and optimizer — not a cosmetic preference. Official binaries target x86_64 Windows and x86_64 Linux.
Supported
- Architecture: x86 / x86_64
- CPU: AMD (
AuthenticAMD) - GPU: none, or AMD only (PCI
0x1002)
Blocked
- Intel CPU · unknown CPU vendor
- NVIDIA / Intel GPU when present
- Mixed AMD+NVIDIA · non-x86 builds
- Exit codes
20–25· no production--force
Independent product — not affiliated with or endorsed by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. AMD is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. No AMD logos are used here.
Etymology
Why “Kraftverk”
Power plant / powerhouse
Kraftverk is inspired by Swedish — kraftverk means power plant / powerhouse / power station. It is a product name only. Not affiliated with the Kingdom of Sweden or any Swedish government entity.
Get started
A clear path for newcomers
Prefer a release binary if you want to evaluate quickly. Building from source is the same control loop.
Check eligibility
Confirm AMD-only policy before optimizing. Inspect-only commands skip the gate.
kraftverk compatibility
kraftverk hardwareInspect & baseline
Fingerprint the machine and establish Kraft Index 10,000.
kraftverk inspect
kraftverk baselineSafe optimize
Milestone safe mode only — reversible process/bench parameters.
kraftverk optimize --mode safe --goal balanced
kraftverk report --format html
kraftverk restore --baseline