Deft: open-source self-hosted workspace unifying chat, tasks, knowledge with MCP agents
Nekileo · reddit · 2026-10-14
A developer open-sourced Deft (AGPL-3.0), a self-hosted workspace combining chat, task management, and knowledge, with the core idea of keeping discussions connected to what happens next.
Key points:
- Full company chat where you can invoke agents to create tasks with approval cards
- Full task management app that picks up agent-created tasks from chat
- A knowledge web auto-built from chat, tasks, CRM, and connected apps, usable as context by agents and humans
- Working Claude MCP connector (ChatGPT also supported); the core workspace runs without any AI provider
- Experimental App Kit for sideloading custom apps; CRM is the first example, an email client is next
Deployable via Docker Compose on a VPS as an alternative to Slack, Linear, and Notion. Built mainly with Claude Code, now using a mixed Opus+Astra+Sol 6.1 setup.
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