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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
Easy to maintain open source documentation websites.
Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.
API Documentation Browser
🃏 A magical documentation site generator.
Wiki.js | Next Generation Open Source Wiki
Documentation that simply works
Project documentation with Markdown.
NOW MANAGED ON CODEBERG
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.
Build beautiful documentation sites with Next.js
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
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。
World's first open-source enterprise world model.
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
Codebase intelligence for AI and humans: code health scores, auto-generated docs, git analytics, dead code detection, and architectural decisions via MCP.
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.
Persepolis is a download manager written in Python.
⚡️next-generation personal AI assistant powered by LLM, RAG and agent loops, supporting computer-use, browser-use and coding agent, demo: https://demo.openagent
Automatically generates beautiful and easy-to-read ER diagrams from your database.
Beautiful, AI-native markdown IDE and LLM wiki
The DokuWiki Open Source Wiki Engine
Huma REST/HTTP API Framework for Golang with OpenAPI 3.1
TypeDB: Built for systems, not records
Simple, Fast, Code first and Compile time generated OpenAPI documentation for Rust
:notebook_with_decorative_cover: The missing documentation tool for your Angular, Nest & Stencil application
Mapnik is an open source toolkit for developing mapping applications
Input OpenAPI. Output SDKs and Docs.
A CLI and library to extract information from React component files for documentation generation purposes.
API documentation engine for Kotlin
📖 Static Site Generator for component library development
Database documentation built easy
A personal knowledge base that builds and maintains itself. Drop in sources — Claude (or Codex/Gemini) reads them, extracts knowledge, and maintains a persisten
Framework for AI agents to build and maintain a digital brain through Obsidian wiki
Claude Code plugin that generates individualized knowledge systems from conversation. You describe how you think and work, have a conversation and get a complet
Turn complex codebases into clear, navigable architecture diagrams with Claude Code.
OpenAPI 3.0 and 3.1 and 3.2 (and Swagger v2) implementation for Go (parsing, converting, validation, and more)
A self-hosted, database-less note taking web app that utilises a flat folder of markdown files for storage.
Open-source, AI-native knowledge base & Evernote alternative with native MCP. Zero-cost on Cloudflare or Docker.
The cross-harness self-improving memory layer for AI agents.
📱The official Wikipedia app for Android!
README file generator, powered by AI.
OpenApi or Swagger integration to Laravel
Markdown powered Knowledgebase Wiki for Node.js
Your Self-Hosted Knowledge Base
A plain text note-taking assistant
A new SOTA for RAG — an original retrieval architecture and an open-source knowledge base for humans and agents.
Documentation compiler for humans and machines. One Markdown source to website, search, AI context, and knowledge formats together.
✏️ Write gorgeous documentation for your products using Markdown inside your Laravel app
Documentation for Remix IDE
The knowledge compiler. Raw sources in, interlinked wiki out. Inspired by Karpathy's LLM Wiki pattern.
Copy, export, import, delete, document and compare policies and profiles in Intune and Azure with PowerShell script and WPF UI. Import ADMX files and registry s
YARD is a Ruby Documentation tool. The Y stands for "Yay!"
Self-hosted, semantically-connected personal knowledge base
Hackable CLI tool for converting Markdown files to PDF using Node.js and headless Chrome.
RapiDoc -WebComponent for OpenAPI Spec
MCP server and Claude plugin for Postgres skills and documentation. Helps AI coding tools generate better PostgreSQL code.
Open Source Implementation of Karpathy's LLM Wiki. Upload documents, connect your Claude account via MCP, and have it write your wiki !
OpenSource Production ready Customer service with built in Evals and monitoring
A markdown editor — and the bridge to your LLM. Local-first, MIT, ~15 MB. Bundled MCP server lets Claude Code / Codex / Cursor drive your vault directly. 14 AI
:anchor: GROWI - Team collaboration software using markdown
Prismer Cloud
A personal context store for AI agents and assistants—reuse your existing coding agent CLI (Codex/Claude/OpenCode) with built‑in Skills/tools and a desktop GUI
An open-source, local-first writing workspace where you can write with Claude Code and Codex, drawing on your own sources and past work.
LeafWiki - Self-hosted wiki. Single Go binary, SQLite, Markdown on disk. No external database required.
🐍 ➡️ 📜 Auto-generate API docs for Python projects
万能导:多平台知识库 Markdown 全项目一键导入导出工具(导入导出效果最好),用自动化代替手动复制粘贴(有道云,飞书,语雀,阿里云知识库,知识星球,印象笔记,ima,onenote,为知笔记,csdn,知乎,微信公众号导出导入).(可保留目录结构,图片,项目格式) 关键词:微信公众号导出,语雀导出导入,飞书导出导
Unified research workspace for humans & agents — PDF Q&A with citations, Vault, writing. 为人与 Agent 协作的科研工作台;补齐 Zotero 时代的人机上下文断点。
A codebase wiki for AI coding agents. Captures what the code can't say: decisions, flows, invariants, gotchas.
Powerful note-taking without the hassle.
Tools for downloading and preserving wikis. We archive wikis, from Wikipedia to tiniest wikis. As of 2026, WikiTeam has preserved more than 600,000 wikis.
Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents. Implements Google OKF v0.2 with sub-300µs in-memory BM25 search, embedded MCP server, and progressive disclos
Logic Language for World Models 🌱🐋🌍
The local-first LLM Wiki: open-source knowledge graph builder, RAG knowledge base, and agent memory store. Built on Andrej Karpathy's pattern. An Obsidian alter
MindOS is a Human-AI Collaborative Mind System, where human thinks and agents act. Globally sync your mind for all agents: transparent, controllable, and evolvi
Angular QR code, Barcode, DataMatrix, scanner component using ZXing.
Open-source database & workspace for AI agents — structured data, durable knowledge, reusable skills, runnable apps, and human review on the writes that matter.
Documenting the unofficial and internal Steam Web API
A foundational library for Semantic Hypergraphs
Open-source CMS for text-driven websites
Embrace a docs-as-code approach to build, version, and publish Git-driven documentation sites using Markdown and a visual editor
开源自托管笔记与私有知识库,支持 Markdown/富文本、AI 写作、思维导图、任务管理、全文搜索、多级笔记本和 Docker 一键部署。
Repo-aware recommendations for skills, agents, MCP servers, and model harnesses. Use your own inventory or the shipped 79,958-node graph with 68,494 skills, 467
中文优先的企业 RAG 知识库:可控解析、治理、切块、混合检索、重排、引用、图谱、评测与 Dify 接入。
Static wiki engine written in Uxntal
📚 A zero-dependency, git-backed micro-lesson library for AI Agents to asynchronously share and search verified debugging experience. | https://misakanet.org
Browser extension that automatically notifies and redirects you to independent wikis.
AWS Generative AI CDK Constructs are sample implementations of AWS CDK for common generative AI patterns.
📗 Just a databaseless markdown flat-file wiki
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 100 open source Documentation & Knowledge Base projects, with 810,034 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 91,428 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.