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An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间,让人与智能体在此协作

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Collaborate with AI in a self-hosted workspace for organizing and managing your knowledge.

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Install
docker run -d \
  -v /siyuan/workspace:/siyuan/workspace \
  -p 6806:6806 \

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An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间,让人与智能体在此协作

siyuan has 46k stars on GitHub. It has been forked 3k times. siyuan is written mainly in TypeScript. It has been in active development since 2020. siyuan is available under the AGPL-3.0 license. Its main topics are agentic-ai, ai-agent, digital-garden, electron.

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What is siyuan?

An open-source, privacy-first, self-hosted knowledge workspace where humans and AI agents work together 开源、隐私优先、自托管的知识工作空间,让人与智能体在此协作

Is siyuan open source?

siyuan is an open-source project. It is released under the AGPL-3.0 license.

Is siyuan free?

Yes. siyuan is free and open source — you can use, modify and self-host it. Its AGPL-3.0 license is a strong copyleft: if you distribute a modified version — including offering it as a network service — your changes must be released under the same license.

What license does siyuan use?

siyuan is available under the AGPL-3.0 license.

What language is siyuan written in?

siyuan is written mainly in TypeScript.

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