Deft

Deft is an open source, self hostable workspace where people and AI agents share the same chat, tasks, notes, knowledge, calendar and dashboard. Its premise is that conversations, decisions and the resulting work should stay in one connected record, so nobody has to re explain context to each person, tool or agent. The software is licensed under AGPL version 3 only and is currently in alpha. It suits teams that want agents working alongside staff while keeping control of what those agents do. A built in assistant called Defty can be tagged in a conversation to draft a task, with the proposed owner, due date and details reviewed before approval, and settled decisions can be saved to Knowledge with their sources so later readers or permitted agents can follow them. Actions run through a three tier approval gate of auto execute, quick approve and full review, and governed elevated actions keep attributable receipts, including the approver when a review occurs. Teams can bring their own agents, connect MCP tools and ICS calendars, and use personal MCP access that acts within each user's scopes. The workspace extends through Modules: Contacts is included, and a coding agent can build new record trackers from Deft's authoring guide for review and installation. Self hosting costs $0 for the software, with infrastructure and bring your own key model costs paid by the user; it runs from GitHub through a supported Docker Compose path. A managed hosted version is planned after the alpha, but its launch date and price have not been set, and a waitlist is open. As alpha software, Deft is best suited to teams prepared to run and test early releases.