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Open Source Documentation & Knowledge Base Tools
Open source documentation & knowledge base tools
All Documentation & Knowledge Base tools
Storybook is the industry standard workshop for building, documenting, and testing UI components in isolation
Graphs that teach > graphs that impress. Turn any code into an interactive knowledge graph you can explore, search, and ask questions about. Works with Claude C
API Documentation Browser
🃏 A magical documentation site generator.
Wiki.js | Next Generation Open Source Wiki
Documentation that simply works
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Open Source DeepWiki: AI-Powered Wiki Generator for GitHub/Gitlab/Bitbucket Repositories. Join the discord: https://discord.gg/gMwThUMeme
Create, edit and share documents with real-time collaboration
An API documentation generator for JavaScript.
Convert documentation websites, GitHub repositories, and PDFs into Claude AI skills with automatic conflict detection
A simple, Git-powered wiki with a local frontend and support for many kinds of markup and content.
cheat allows you to create and view interactive cheatsheets on the command-line. It was designed to help remind *nix system administrators of options for comman
Build beautiful documentation sites with Next.js
Offline documentation browser. Your personal reference library, searchable in an instant.
A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability
PandaWiki 是一款 AI 大模型驱动的开源知识库搭建系统,帮助你快速构建智能化的 产品文档、技术文档、FAQ、博客系统,借助大模型的力量为你提供 AI 创作、AI 问答、AI 搜索等能力。
A powerful, flexible, Markdown-based authoring framework.
CLI and local web plain text note‑taking, bookmarking, and archiving with linking, tagging, filtering, search, Git versioning & syncing, Pandoc conversion, + mo
World's first open-source enterprise world model.
Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.
可私有部署的多租户知识智能体平台:统一 RAG、知识图谱、多智能体、MCP/Skills、沙盒与权限管理。Self-hosted knowledge agent platform for RAG, knowledge graphs and multi-agent workflows.
⚡️next-generation personal AI assistant powered by LLM, RAG and agent loops, supporting computer-use, browser-use and coding agent, demo: https://demo.openagent
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
TypeDB: Built for systems, not records
Beautiful, AI-native markdown IDE and LLM wiki
Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications
📖 Static Site Generator for component library development
Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and Docs.
A personal knowledge base that builds and maintains itself. Drop in sources — Claude (or Codex/Gemini) reads them, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persisten
Claude Code plugin that generates individualized knowledge systems from conversation. You describe how you think and work, have a conversation and get a complet
Framework for AI agents to build and maintain a digital brain through Obsidian wiki
A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
📱The official Wikipedia app for Android!
Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base
🐍 ➡️ 📜 Auto-generate API docs for Python projects
Open-source CMS for text-driven websites
Build lasting communities with modern forum technology
Effortless blogging for developers and tech enthusiasts
Transform documentation with developer-focused simplicity
Frequently asked questions
How many open source Documentation & Knowledge Base tools are there?
This registry tracks 40 open source Documentation & Knowledge Base projects, with 554,288 combined GitHub stars. The list is ranked by stars and refreshed nightly.
What is the most popular open source Documentation & Knowledge Base project?
storybook leads this category with 91,081 GitHub stars, followed by Understand-Anything.
Are these Documentation & Knowledge Base tools free?
Yes — every project listed here is open source. Some also offer paid hosted versions alongside the free self-hosted option; the licence for each project is shown on its card.