# YaoApp/yao

✨ All your agents and workspaces in one place, on every device you own. Track tasks on a board, accessible from desktop, mobile, browser, or API. Self-hosted.

Repository: https://github.com/YaoApp/yao
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/yao
Homepage: https://yaoagents.com
Language: Go
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: ai-native, claude-code, deepseek-harness, dsh-plugin, agent-harness, agent-orchestration, agent-skills, agent-workspaces, ai-agents, coding-agent, dsh, local-first, no-code, own-your-data, tool-use, deepseek, mcp
Last push: 2026-08-22T15:16:15+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 99/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 99, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1822, "days_push": 11, "days_rel": 11, "gap_med": 1, "n_releases_24m": 58}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 7812, forks 696 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:05.211409+00:00)

## What it is
Yao Agents is a self-hosted, AI-native platform for running AI agents and workspaces across your own devices, with a task board, isolated workspaces, and an open API (SSE/WebSocket). It integrates a DeepSeek Harness, supports MCP/skills/hooks extensibility, and runs as a single-binary engine on desktop, mobile, browser, or server.

## Use cases
- run ai agents on my own devices self-hosted
- orchestrate coding agents across multiple machines
- turn conversations into tasks on a kanban board handled by agents
- schedule autonomous ai agents to process emails and data 24/7
- integrate ai agents into my apps via api with sse and websocket
- build a private knowledge base from agent work outputs
- extend agents with mcp tools and skills
- keep ai agent data local instead of a third-party cloud

## When to choose
- you want self-hosted, local-first agent orchestration with data on your own machines
- you need agents running concurrently across multiple computers or servers from one console
- you want a task-board workflow where agents mature into purpose-built assistants
- you need MCP, hooks, and skills extensibility with an open API for embedding agents in apps

## When to avoid
- you only need a simple chatbot UI without multi-device orchestration
- you require a fully permissive license - the license is Apache 2.0 modified (NOASSERTION)
- you want a managed cloud service rather than running your own engine
- you need heavy vision/audio model support with DeepSeek only, since DeepSeek lacks vision and audio slots

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: agent-framework, mcp, chat-interface, workflow-automation, scheduling, webhook, self-hosted, api-framework
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, self-hosted, developer-tools
- platform: self-hosted, cross-platform, windows, go
- tags: agent-orchestration, agent-workspaces, task-board, local-first, coding-agent, deepseek-harness, claude-code-ecosystem, no-code, own-your-data, open-api, ai-agents, automation, desktop, web-server, docker, linux, macos, android, ios

## Member repositories
- YaoApp/yao (main) score 99

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:05.211409+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:34:19.470313+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/YaoApp/yao (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:05.211409+00:00, sha 649a2df2e972)
  - homepage: https://yaoagents.com (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:47.414015+00:00, sha e54223552885)
  - site_page: https://yaoagents.com/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:47.423128+00:00, sha f5fe92f06218)
  - site_page: https://yaoagents.com/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:47.425084+00:00, sha 60634f1d03e6)
  - site_page: https://yaoagents.com/docs/en-us/getting-started/installation (fetched 2026-08-29T08:30:47.426701+00:00, sha 67db137e3d52)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.