Daniël de Kok

Great questions!

• Indeed, kernels uploaded to a (model) repo that follows the layout outlined in https://github.com/huggingface/kernels/blob/main/docs/source/kernel-requirements.md#directory-layout can be loaded by the kernels library.
• Yes, kernel-builder assures the correct output format, but also adds additional validations such as checking whether a kernel is compatible with manylinux_2_28, uses Python ABI3 (for binary kernels), and that the kernel can be loaded using kernels (which entails using relative imports, etc.).