OpenCognit

Build Your Zero Human Company.

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

This repository contains OpenCognit Community Edition v0.9.0, the final AGPL-3.0 release.

As of June 2026, OpenCognit is no longer open source. Active development continues under a commercial license as OpenCognit Pro.

The Community Edition remains available under AGPL-3.0 but is no longer maintained. Security patches and new features are exclusive to Pro.

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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 ←────┘

• CEO Orchestrator — Extended Thinking before delegation
• Persistent Memory — MemPalace + Semantic + SOUL documents per agent
• Critic Loop — Every output reviewed before "done"
• Atomic Budgets — Hard limits enforced at the cent level
• Task DAG — Dependencies auto-resolve, downstream tasks unlock
• War Room — Live agent grid with real-time execution traces
• Org Chart — Agent hierarchies, roles, and peer meetings
• Plugin System — Custom adapters, widgets, API endpoints
• MCP Server — Use OpenCognit from Cursor, Claude Code, Windsurf
• CLI Executor — Live bash streaming with SSE

⚠️ The Community Edition is provided as-is without support or updates.

# 1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/OpenCognit/opencognit.git
cd opencognit

# 2. Setup
bash setup.sh

# 3. Run
npm run dev

The UI opens at http://localhost:3200. The API runs on http://localhost:3201.

OpenCognit Pro is the actively developed, commercially licensed version with enterprise security, priority support, and regular updates.

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┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│           React 19 + Vite 6             │
│     Glassmorphism UI, Dark Mode         │
└─────────────┬───────────────────────────┘
              │ REST / SSE / WebSocket
┌─────────────▼───────────────────────────┐
│      Express 5 + SQLite/PostgreSQL      │
│  ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌──────────┐  │
│  │  CEO    │ │ Critic  │ │  Memory  │  │
│  │Orchestr.│ │  Loop   │ │  Palace  │  │
│  └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └──────────┘  │
│  ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌──────────┐  │
│  │  Task   │ │ Budget  │ │  Agent   │  │
│  │   DAG   │ │ Control │ │ Registry │  │
│  └─────────┘ └─────────┘ └──────────┘  │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
              │ Adapters (Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, ...)
┌─────────────▼───────────────────────────┐
│     LLM Providers + Local Models        │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘

OpenCognit started as an AGPL project to push the boundaries of autonomous AI agents. After 6 months of development, the reality is clear:

• AGPL blocks enterprise adoption — legal teams reject it
• No sustainable funding — 30 stars don't pay server bills
• Competitors (Paperclip, CrewAI) have 1000× more resources with MIT/Apache

To keep building OpenCognit into a production-grade product, we need a sustainable model. The Community Edition remains free and open (AGPL). Pro funds continued development.

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This repository contains OpenCognit Community Edition v0.9.0, licensed under AGPL-3.0.

OpenCognit Pro is licensed under the OpenCognit Commercial License Agreement.

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