Your team. Your data. Your infrastructure.
ByteFolk builds open, self-hostable infrastructure for digital teams. We make the local-first layer between AI models and real work: portable role packages, an organization workspace, long-term memory, and collaborative documents. Every project favors user-owned data, open interfaces, and claims backed by reproducible evidence.
Start here: Digital Employee
Package a role's instructions, approved knowledge, Schemas, and acceptance fixtures as a portable digital employee. Validate it locally without a model call, then run one-shot work through a configured, supported Agent Host.
Try it without credentials: run an official release-pinned case.
Quickstart · Latest release · CLI and current status · Roadmap
Digital Employee is under active development. The repositories distinguish public releases from source previews and planned capabilities; a green build or a merged change is not automatically a released feature.
Digital Employee Quickstart — official examples
Release-pinned, credential-free starting point. Try reusable employee packages for team Q&A, onboarding, approval proposals, and product support. Each case includes knowledge, Schemas, and offline acceptance fixtures.
Org Workbench — local organization workspace
Development preview; no tagged installer release yet. An Electron desktop workspace where the file tree is the org chart, with position-based local conversations, auditable organization changes, and local reporting.
Current status and source setup · API contract
Memory — portable memory plane
Experimental; a public release is available. Keep files, structured memories, task checkpoints, and provenance under your control, with one core available through API, MCP, CLI, and UI.
Quick start · Latest release · Product direction
Docs — collaborative document plane
Experimental source preview; no tagged release yet. Self-hosted documents for people and AI agents, with rich-text editing, real-time collaboration, sharing, version recovery, API access, and a CLI.
Run locally · Capabilities · Product direction
These projects can be explored independently. Cross-project integration is described as available only when the owning repositories provide release and verification evidence.
Design System — shared UI foundation
An experimental set of design tokens, accessible components, and application patterns for a consistent ByteFolk experience. It is available for source integration; no stable npm release is promised yet.
Package guide · Design decisions
- Start with a documented problem or outcome.
- Make changes through issues and pull requests, with passing checks and independent review.
- Validate claims with reproducible evidence.
- Prefer small, reviewable changes and transparent decisions.
- Keep shipped capabilities, experimental work, and future direction clearly separated.
- Start with the Digital Employee quickstart, or choose the product plane closest to your goal and read its status and setup documentation.
- Use the repository's issue templates for bugs, proposals, documentation, maintenance, and questions.
- Report vulnerabilities privately through the affected repository's Security tab.
Organization-wide policies:
A repository's local policy supplies project-specific instructions while preserving the organization baseline.