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Connect everything.
Own your data.

Kanecta is a free and open source data platform. Self-host on your own infrastructure — your data, your rules, your choice.

Why Kanecta?

No accounts. No gates.

Kanecta is fully open source. Download, run, and use it without signing up for anything.

Self-hosted.

Run Kanecta on your own servers — a laptop, a VPS, or a Raspberry Pi. No accounts, no telemetry, no phone-home.

No lock-in. Ever.

Your data, your infrastructure. Migrate away at any time. The MIT license guarantees your freedoms.

Community first.

Built in the open, maintained by the community. Contributions, bug reports, and feedback are always welcome.

One protocol. Three superpowers.

A data platform

Every item lives as a plain JSON file on disk in a sharded structure that scales to millions of items. No proprietary format, no database. Open with a text editor today — and in fifty years.

An AI bridge

Every item has a stable UUID, an explicit type, and typed semantic relationships. AI agents reference your data unambiguously across sessions and pull exactly the context they need.

An application platform

The same datastore powering your personal knowledge base can power a community website, a governance system, or a team planning tool. Build on top of an open protocol, or extend an existing app.

AI-native, not AI-bolted-on.

Most knowledge tools were designed before LLMs existed and had AI features added later. Kanecta is built for AI-augmented work from the ground up.

Stable UUIDs, every item

Every paragraph, decision, and file gets a globally unique ID. AI agents reference items unambiguously across sessions — no stale links when files are renamed.

Typed relationships

Not just "A links to B" — but depends-on, blocks, contradicts, supersedes. AI can reason about the shape of your knowledge, not just its text.

Decision logs with reasoning

Capture not just what was decided but why — with alternatives considered. Institutional memory that compounds in value over months and years.

Token-efficient context

Pull only the relevant items into each conversation instead of replaying entire histories. Cheaper, faster, and more precise than growing chat context.

Self-host in minutes.

Kanecta is available as an npm package. Run it on your laptop, a VPS, or a Raspberry Pi — no accounts, no telemetry, no phone-home.

  • Requires Node.js 18 or later
  • Installs the API, web client, and CLI in one command
  • Run kanecta to see all available commands
  • Full source code on GitHub
View on npm
# Install Node.js, then:

npm install -g kanecta
kanecta      <--- will guide you through setup

Licensed under MIT

Kanecta is free software. The MIT License is a permissive open source license that allows anyone to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies of the software, with minimal restrictions.

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