MaxKB
Open-source platform for building enterprise-grade AI agents.
About
MaxKB, short for Max Knowledge Brain, is an open-source platform from the 1Panel team for building enterprise-grade agents. It combines RAG pipelines with robust workflows and MCP tool-use capabilities, and is positioned for intelligent customer service, corporate knowledge bases, academic research, and education.
Its RAG pipeline supports direct document uploads and automatic crawling of online documents, with automatic text splitting and vectorization to reduce hallucinations. It is released under GPL v3 and deploys via Docker, with English and Chinese documentation.
What it can do
- RAG pipelines with automatic document splitting and vectorization
- Enterprise agent workflows with MCP tool-use support
- Knowledge bases for customer service and internal Q&A
- Self-hosted under GPL v3 with Docker deployment
Setup
Deploy via Docker from the 1Panel-dev/maxkb repository, then create knowledge bases and agent workflows in the web UI.
Prerequisites
Docker host and an LLM provider API key for the underlying model calls.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
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