Alpha · open source

An inbox for agentic
coding and knowledge work.

Use your choice of models and agent harnesses in one workspace. Connect them to files, APIs, MCP servers, skills, and automations across desktop, server, and CLI.

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Works with
  • Claude
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Ollama
  • & more
Kata Agents desktop showing status and source navigation, an inbox of coding and knowledge-work sessions, and a GitHub issue breakdown conversation.

Bring your own model

Your subscription, your keys, your choice.

Claude

Anthropic models with your API key or Max subscription.

OpenAI

GPT and Codex through your own OpenAI key.

OpenRouter

Four hundred-plus models behind a single gateway.

Local

Run fully offline with Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint.

Also Google AI Studio, GitHub Copilot, and any OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Switch anytime; your workflow stays the same.

Sources

Connect to any API, MCP, or local source.

Point Kata Agents at an MCP server, a REST API, or a local folder. It reads the docs, tests the connection, and exposes the tools to your agents.

Kata Agents Sources panel listing Context7, GitHub, and Perplexity as MCP connections, with a connection detail view.

Skills

Reusable skills, imported or authored.

Bring skills over from Claude Code or describe a new one in plain language. Agents reach for the right skill mid-conversation, no restart required.

Kata Agents Skills library with entries like auditing-accessibility and pr-reviews, alongside a skill's metadata and instructions.

Multi-step work

Plans and diagrams, rendered inline.

Agents break work into steps and render Mermaid diagrams in the conversation, keeping the reasoning legible as they research, draft, and execute.

A Mermaid flow diagram rendered inside a Kata Agents session, showing a research-and-planning loop with decision branches.

Automations

Keep work moving when you step away.

Schedule runs, trigger sessions on events, or hand off agentic loops. Run headless on a server or drive it from the CLI, then pick the thread back up in the desktop app.

  • Scheduled Run on a cadence you set.
  • Event-based Start when something changes.
  • Agentic Hand off a multi-step loop.
  • Desktop · Server · CLI One workspace, three surfaces.

Operating rhythm

How a session runs.

  1. Install the desktop app or start the server.
  2. Sign in to the AI providers you use for work.
  3. Attach files, sources, APIs, MCP connections, or skills.
  4. Let agents research, draft, summarize, execute, and report back.

Built in the open

Yours to run.

Kata Agents is open source. Install the desktop app, run the server, or read the source and bend it to your own workflow.

Apache 2.0 · Bun · macOS / Linux / Windows

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Questions about Kata Agents

Who is Kata Agents for?
Kata Agents is geared toward general knowledge workers who want AI agents connected to their files, tools, sources, and recurring workflows.
What can I connect to it?
The product supports file attachments, local sources, MCP sources, API sources, workspace skills, provider credentials, and event-driven automations.
Can technical teams still run it headlessly?
Yes. The headless server exposes a WebSocket RPC API and craft-cli can connect to a running server or run a self-contained agent session.