NocoBase is an open-source AI plus no-code platform, written in TypeScript, for teams and non-developers who need to build and run internal business systems such as admin dashboards, CRM, and ERP tooling.

What it is

NocoBase is an AI plus no-code platform for building business systems fast. It ships as a TypeScript project with a command-line interface published to npm and a browser-based WYSIWYG builder, so a data model, a page, a workflow, or a permission rule can be created either by hand in the visual interface or by an AI coding agent driving the same CLI. The README states the design goal directly: rather than generating everything from scratch, AI works on top of production-proven infrastructure and a WYSIWYG no-code interface, so teams get speed and reliability together.

The concrete problem it solves is the blank-slate build. A team that needs an internal admin dashboard, a CRUD application, or CRM and ERP-adjacent tooling would otherwise scaffold models, pages, workflows, and access control from nothing for every new system. NocoBase puts that infrastructure in place first and lets AI and people edit on top of it, so generated artefacts land in a running application rather than in an empty repository. Work can be split freely between the two: AI creates data models, pages, and workflows, and people refine the user interface and interactions afterwards.

Key capabilities

• Command-line workflow built on @nocobase/cli: npm install -g @nocobase/cli, then nb init --ui to install an application and nb --version to check the installed release.
• WYSIWYG no-code interface with one-click switching between usage mode and configuration mode, covering data models, pages, workflows, and permissions.
• Agent-driven development with mainstream coding agents including Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, and TRAE; agents can handle setup, development, migration, and release end to end.
• AI employees that work inside the running system — front-end analysis, Q&A, and form filling, plus back-end document recognition, risk monitoring, and task routing — and that join workflow decisions and execution.
• Open interfaces for the agent ecosystem: MCP, HTTP APIs, CLI, and skills, used by platforms such as OpenClaw, Hermes, Dify, Coze, and n8n, keeping internal and external agents inside the same boundaries.
• Chat and mail integration with Telegram, WhatsApp, Slack, and Gmail to query data, trigger actions, and execute business workflows.
• Fine-grained permissions applied identically to AI and human users, including per-AI-employee roles with field-level read and write permissions, and audit logs on every data change and workflow trigger.

Who uses it and how

• Teams that need admin dashboards, CRM, ERP, internal tools, or general CRUD systems and would otherwise build each one by hand.
• Mixed teams where developers work through coding agents while non-developers build and modify the same system visually, each refining the other's output.
• Operations and business groups that place AI employees into workflows for document recognition, risk monitoring, and automatic task routing.
• Organizations that connect Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp, or Gmail so staff query data and trigger business workflows from tools they already use.
• Administrators who need every AI action constrained by the same role and field-level permissions as human users, with audit trails available for review.

Getting started

Install globally with npm install -g @nocobase/cli, then run nb init --ui to install a NocoBase app; coding agents such as codex, claude, or opencode can be used during the build. An online demo is available at https://demo.nocobase.com/new, with documentation at https://docs.nocobase.com/.

How it compares

The facts accompanying this entry name no paid products that NocoBase replaces, and no comparable projects appear alongside it. On the evidence available, it stands alone in this registry.

When to use it — and when not to

The recorded licence is NOASSERTION, so anyone evaluating it for commercial or regulated use should confirm the actual terms on the project repository rather than trusting the registry field. The project carries 307 open issues, and its change history reaches readers through blog release notes with weekly summaries rather than a versioned changelog, while the documented quick start is a self-installed CLI application with no managed hosting described. Choose it when AI-assisted building on an existing no-code foundation matches the need; look elsewhere if an unambiguous open-source licence or a fully hosted service is a hard requirement.

# Install NocoBase CLI
npm install -g @nocobase/cli
nb --version

# Install a NocoBase app
nb init --ui

# Optional: build together with an AI Agent
codex # claude, opencode