OpenCognit

Build Your Zero Human Company.

The open-source AI agent OS — CEO orchestrator, persistent memory, real execution, atomic budgets. Self-hosted. No cloud lock-in. Free forever.

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OpenCognit is an AI agent orchestration OS — not a chatbot, not a single-agent wrapper. It runs a virtual company of autonomous AI agents that work together without you watching.

You set a goal. The CEO agent breaks it down, assigns tasks to specialists, reviews their work with a built-in Critic loop, and escalates blockers — while you sleep.

You → Goal → CEO Agent → Dev Agent → Writer Agent → Researcher Agent
                 ↑               ↓              ↓
          Persistent Memory ←── Critic ←── Results ←────┘

The CEO agent uses claude-sonnet-4-6 with Anthropic's Extended Thinking — it reasons step-by-step before making decisions. It delegates tasks via native tool calls (not JSON parsing), calls team meetings, and requests board approval for hiring.

Each agent has its own memory with Rooms (key-value), Diary (structured entries), and a Knowledge Graph (subject-predicate-object triplets). Agents tag important outputs with [REMEMBER:room] — parsed and saved automatically. Old memories consolidate into LLM-compressed summaries.

Every task result goes through a lightweight evaluator (Haiku) before being marked done. If insufficient, the agent retries — up to 2 times — before escalating to the board. No silent failures.

Define blocking relationships between tasks. When Task A completes, dependent tasks are automatically unlocked and their assigned agents are woken — no manual intervention.

Each agent gets a structured identity document — IDENTITY, DECISION PRINCIPLES, CYCLE CHECKLIST, PERSONALITY — generated by LLM or hand-crafted. Solves the "Memento Problem" where agents forget who they are across sessions.

Each agent wakes on its own schedule (5m, 15m, 1h, 24h, or custom). The heartbeat is the core of autonomy — it processes inbox tasks, runs adapters, tracks costs, and feeds results back to the team.

• Dashboard — live agent grid, system pulse, company health score
• War Room — full-screen mission control with animated counters
• Meetings — agents can call peer meetings, synthesize results
• Goals (OKR) — 4-level hierarchy, progress tracking
• Kanban — tasks with Critic-reviewed outputs
• Activity — 28-day heatmap, filtered feed
• Routines — cron-based automations
• Memory — browsable agent memory with Knowledge Graph viz
• Telegram — mobile interface with /status, /tasks, free-form chat

bash <(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/OpenCognit/opencognit/main/install.sh)

Interactive wizard: asks for project name + optional API key, clones the repo, installs deps, generates secrets, migrates DB, builds frontend. Done in under 2 minutes.

opencognit
# → http://localhost:3201

git clone https://github.com/OpenCognit/opencognit.git
cd opencognit
docker compose up
# → http://localhost:3201

Data is persisted in ./data/ — safe across restarts.

Requirements: Node.js ≥ 20

git clone https://github.com/OpenCognit/opencognit.git
cd opencognit
bash setup.sh   # installs deps, generates keys, migrates DB, builds frontend
npm start
# → http://localhost:3201

1. Create your company — name it, describe its goal
2. Configure API keys — Settings → add Anthropic or OpenRouter key
3. Set default model — Settings → Standard-Modell (all agents use this unless overridden)
4. Add a CEO agent — set connection type to ceo, enable Orchestrator flag
5. Add worker agents — give them roles, skills, heartbeat intervals
6. Create your first goal — CEO will start breaking it down autonomously

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                    React 19 Frontend                      │
│  Dashboard · Agents · Tasks · Meetings · Intelligence   │
│  Goals · War Room · Memory · Costs · SOUL Editor     │
└────────────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                         │ REST + WebSocket + SSE
┌────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────┐
│                   Express 5 API Server                    │
│                                                          │
│  ┌──────────────┐  ┌──────────────┐  ┌───────────────┐  │
│  │  Heartbeat   │  │  Cron Sched  │  │  CEO Adapter  │  │
│  │  Runner      │  │  (30s tick)  │  │  + Thinking   │  │
│  └──────┬───────┘  └──────────────┘  └───────────────┘  │
│         │                                                 │
│  ┌──────▼──────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │
│  │           Adapter Registry                           │ │
│  │  Bash · HTTP · Claude Code · OpenRouter · Ollama    │ │
│  │  Critic Loop · Task Chaining · Token Budget Guard   │ │
│  └──────┬──────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │
│         │                                                 │
│  ┌──────▼───────────────────────────────────────────┐    │
│  │                  Memory                        │    │
│  │  Wing · Rooms · Diary · KG · Consolidation        │    │
│  └──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘    │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────-┘
                         │
┌────────────────────────▼────────────────────────────────┐
│              SQLite (self-hosted, no cloud dependency)    │
│  Agents · Tasks · Goals · Memory · Meetings · Costs     │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

opencognit/
├── server/
│   ├── index.ts              # Express + all API endpoints
│   ├── db/schema.ts          # Drizzle schema (SQLite)
│   ├── services/
│   │   ├── heartbeat.ts      # Agent cycle runner + Critic Loop
│   │   ├── cron.ts           # Cron scheduler
│   │   ├── wakeup.ts         # Wakeup coalescing
│   │   ├── memory-auto.ts # Auto-save + REMEMBER protocol
│   │   └── messaging.ts      # Telegram + channels
│   └── adapters/
│       ├── ceo.ts            # CEO Orchestrator + Extended Thinking
│       ├── claude-code.ts    # Claude Code CLI adapter
│       └── registry.ts       # Adapter auto-selection
└── src/
    ├── pages/                # All UI pages
    ├── components/           # Shared components
    └── i18n/                 # DE + EN translations

OpenCognit is 100% self-hosted. Your data never leaves your machine:

• Database: SQLite file in ./data/
• API keys: encrypted at rest
• No telemetry, no analytics, no external dependencies

The only outbound connections are the LLM API calls you configure.

• Electron desktop app (one-click, no terminal)
• Agent marketplace (community plugins)
• Multi-tenant cloud deployment option
• Web-based IDE integration (Cursor / Windsurf)
• Mobile dashboard
• Agent OAuth delegation

Looking for an AutoGPT alternative, CrewAI alternative, or open-source multi-agent system? OpenCognit adds a full org chart, persistent memory, and a built-in quality loop on top.

Pull requests welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

OpenCognit is free and open-source. If it saves you time or helps your business, consider supporting development:

☕ Ko-fi
💖 GitHub Sponsors

Every contribution helps keep this project alive and actively maintained.

AGPL-3.0 — see LICENSE

Commercial licensing (SaaS / enterprise closed-source) available on request via GitHub Issues.