One place where your company's AI skills, tools and knowledge live: centrally managed, reviewed and access-controlled, and usable from any AI agent. The open-source core of the Bevel platform.

• Every employee connects once, in minutes. They add the workspace to Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP-capable agent with a single connection key, and their agent can use exactly the skills, tools and knowledge their role allows. No per-tool credentials handed around, no per-agent setup projects.
• The company stays in control. Skills, tool access and knowledge are managed and reviewed in one place: every change has an author and a way back, and anything proposed through a change request reaches its owners for review before it lands. The rules apply to agents exactly as they apply to people.
• Independent of any agent vendor. Because the workspace speaks open protocols, you can switch agent vendors on price and performance, or mix them by task and role, without rebuilding what your agents know and can do. The investment lives with you, not inside one vendor's walls. That is what makes enterprise agent rollouts fast: onboard the next team, or the next agent, instead of starting over.

Under the hood, everything lives in a git repository you own, on any git host: skills (SKILL.md folders), tool manuals (UTCP) with an encrypted secrets vault, and knowledge. You get branches, change requests with owner approval, role-based access, and a built-in remote MCP server (OAuth 2.1) that agents connect to.

Contents

• See Hexis in action
• Try the live demo
• Managed hosting
• Deploy with Docker
• Local development
• Environment reference
• Troubleshooting
• Repository layout

Watch the full walkthrough: connect an agent, use company context, review proposed changes, and manage team access.

See Hexis in action

Propose and approve skill changes

Anyone can propose a new skill or improve an existing one. On protected branches, owners review the exact change and approve it before it becomes available to the team's agents.

Use your team's skills in Claude

Connect Claude to Hexis over MCP, then ask normally. Claude can discover and load the approved skill instructions and company context your role can access, without copying prompts between tools.

Share skills with the right people

Add teammates to roles or grant access directly when needed. Everyone connects to the same workspace, while each person and their agent only sees what they are allowed to read.

Try it first: the live demo

demo.bevel.software is a public instance you can sign into with your Google account, populated with a fictional company's knowledge, skills and tools. The Start here page walks you through the whole loop: connect your own agent over MCP, have it build a sales deck from a skill, watch its proposed improvement arrive as a change request. The demo is shared and read-mostly (visitors propose, owners approve); everything below gets you the same thing with none of the limits.

Want a managed instance?

We run it for you (hosting, upgrades, backups, SSO) and your team just signs in. Write to ali.raza@bevel.software.

Deploy it in 5 minutes (Docker)

You need: Docker with Compose on a server (or your laptop; one line below differs), and an empty git repository on any host (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, self-hosted) to hold your knowledge base. The app seeds it with a starter template on first run.

git clone https://github.com/Bevel-Software/Hexis.git
cd Hexis
cp .env.example .env

Open .env and fill in the four required values (everything else can wait):

ADMIN_EMAIL=you@example.com     # the deployment owner, always an admin
ADMIN_PASSWORD=pick-something   # sign-in password; only with password login (SSO-only deployments drop it, see below)
JWT_SECRET=…                    # generate with the command below
SECRETS_ENC_KEY=…               # generate with the command below

Generate the two secrets (run twice, paste one result into each):

node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('base64'))"
# no Node installed? docker run --rm node:22-slim node -e "console.log(require('crypto').randomBytes(32).toString('base64'))"

For a public deployment, also set the origin values:

PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL=https://bevel.your-domain.com   # public origin; OAuth redirects are built from it
PUBLIC_FRONTEND_URL=https://bevel.your-domain.com  # same origin: the backend serves the SPA

Then start everything (Postgres + the app). Behind a reverse proxy (Coolify, Traefik, nginx; recommended):

docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d

Also set TRUST_PROXY to your proxy hop count (1 for a single proxy), so rate limits see real client IPs instead of the proxy's.

The explicit -f skips docker-compose.override.yml, so the app publishes no host port: your proxy reaches it on port 3001 over the compose network. This is deliberate: a fixed published port makes every redeploy fail with port is already allocated, because the replacement container starts while the outgoing one still holds it.

Directly exposed (no proxy): plain docker compose up -d publishes :3001; use APP_PORT=8080 docker compose up -d for a different host port. Leave TRUST_PROXY unset here. With no proxy in front, trusting forwarded headers would let clients spoof their own address.

Open your domain and sign in with ADMIN_EMAIL / ADMIN_PASSWORD.

Just trying it on your laptop? Same steps, minus the origin values: plain docker compose up -d, then open http://localhost:3001.

First sign-in: the setup screen

The app asks for the things it could not guess, and tests them against the real host before saving:

1. Knowledge-base repo: the https clone URL of that empty repository.
2. Git credential: a token with read/write access to it (for GitHub: a fine-grained personal access token with Contents: read & write on that one repo is enough).
3. Branch model: which branch is the default and which are protected (changes to protected branches only land through approved change requests). The repository's real branches are offered as suggestions; for an empty repo the default (main) is fine.

Since the repo is empty, the app initialises it from the bundled template and writes a roles.yaml whose first Admin is you. That's it: you're in the workspace. Head to Skills & Tools to make your first group and skill, and to Connect (in the app menu) to hook up an agent over MCP.

Prefer configuring by environment instead of the setup screen? Every one of those values has an env var (KB_REPO_URL, GIT_TOKEN, DEFAULT_BRANCH, …); anything set in the environment wins over the setup screen. See .env.example.

Worth knowing in production:

• State that survives redeploys: Postgres data plus three app volumes (workspace clones, diff-review backups, tool-chain spill files) are named volumes, so a redeploy or image rebuild loses nothing. Back up the pgdata volume and your knowledge-base git repo; everything else is derivable.
• Health: GET /api/health. First boot can take a minute or two while it runs migrations and seeds the knowledge-base repo.
• Single sign-on: set OIDC_ISSUER_URL / OIDC_CLIENT_ID / OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET (any spec-compliant provider) or configure it on the setup screen, which shows you the redirect URI to register. For SSO-only deployments set LOGIN_PASSWORD=false and drop ADMIN_PASSWORD. If your issuer is multi-tenant (Google, Entra common), set ALLOWED_EMAIL_DOMAINS. SSO auto-provisions accounts, and that list is the only signup boundary.

Local development (run from source)

You need: Node 22 (.nvmrc; the engine range is >=22 <23), pnpm 10, git ≥ 2.41, and a Postgres 17 (the bundled one is fine):

docker compose up -d db        # just the database
pnpm install
pnpm build                     # builds the packages the apps import
cp .env.example .env           # fill the same four required values;
                               # the default DATABASE_URL already points at the bundled db
pnpm dev                       # backend on :3001, Vite dev server on :5173

Open http://localhost:5173 (the dev server proxies to the backend). Useful commands: pnpm test, pnpm typecheck, pnpm lint.

Migrations run automatically on boot; there is no separate migrate step, in dev or in production.

Environment reference

The four required values, then the rest. Everything marked setup screen can be left unset and configured in the app at first sign-in (env always wins). .env.example documents every variable in full.

Variable	Required	Purpose
ADMIN_EMAIL	yes	Deployment owner: always an admin, and the initial Admin of a freshly seeded KB
ADMIN_PASSWORD	with password login	Bootstrap sign-in password, checked against the env and never stored. Not needed when LOGIN_PASSWORD=false
JWT_SECRET	yes	Signs login sessions + OAuth state
SECRETS_ENC_KEY	yes	32-byte key (base64/hex) encrypting vault secrets + MCP OAuth tokens
DATABASE_URL	see note	Postgres connection string. Unset under compose, the app builds it from the POSTGRES_* values the bundled db was created with
POSTGRES_USER / POSTGRES_PASSWORD / POSTGRES_DB	no	Credentials for the bundled database (applied only when its volume is first created)
KB_REPO_URL	setup screen	https clone/push URL of the knowledge-base repo, on any git host
GIT_TOKEN / GIT_USERNAME	setup screen	Git credential (HTTP Basic password / host-specific username; see .env.example for per-host usernames)
DEFAULT_BRANCH / PROTECTED_BRANCHES	setup screen	Branch model. Runtime-only: served to the frontend over /api/config, so one build runs anywhere
PUBLIC_BACKEND_URL / PUBLIC_FRONTEND_URL	production	Public origins for OAuth redirects + post-login bounces
TRUST_PROXY	behind a proxy	Reverse-proxy hop count, so req.ip and the login rate limit see the real client
OIDC_ISSUER_URL / OIDC_CLIENT_ID / OIDC_CLIENT_SECRET	no	Generic OIDC SSO; the login method appears once all three are set
ALLOWED_EMAIL_DOMAINS	with multi-tenant SSO	Signup allow-list for SSO auto-provisioning
LOGIN_PASSWORD	no	false hides password login and rejects the endpoint
PORT	no	Backend port (default 3001)
KB_DIR_NAME	no	Directory name of the KB clone inside each workspace
TENANT_ID	no	Slug branding credential prefixes (default bevel)
KB_TEMPLATE_DIR	no	Overrides the packaged KB seed template
ONTOLOGY_SESSION_BLOCK	no	Ontology-session touch tracking toggle (default on)

Troubleshooting

• port is already allocated on redeploy: you're behind a proxy but ran compose without -f docker-compose.yml, so the override published a host port. Deploy with the explicit -f (see above).
• Changed POSTGRES_PASSWORD but can't connect: Postgres applies those values only when its data volume is first created. In dev, docker compose down -v resets it; in production, change the password in the database itself.
• pnpm install fails on Node version: the engine range is strict (>=22 <23) because of a native dependency's ABI. nvm use picks up .nvmrc.
• Setup screen rejects the git token: the token needs read and write (push) access to the KB repository; the setup screen's test tells you which half failed. On GitHub, fine-grained tokens also need the repo explicitly selected.
• Changed ADMIN_PASSWORD and nothing happened: it's read once at startup; restart the app container.
• App unhealthy right after first start: give it the start_period (~90s); first boot runs migrations and seeds the KB repo before answering.

Repository layout

Path	What it is
packages/shared	@bevel-software/platform-shared: shared types + pure domain utilities
packages/core-backend	@bevel-software/platform-core-backend: the core backend (ships migrations/ + kb-template/)
packages/core-frontend	@bevel-software/platform-core-frontend: the core UI, published as raw TS/TSX source
apps/server	standalone core backend shell
apps/web	standalone core SPA shell (Vite)

License: Apache-2.0