MindsHub Cowork is the unified workspace where you delegate entire projects — apps, websites, research, analysis, reporting, scheduled operations — and collect finished, shareable results. Connect your data, route work to any model (open or proprietary), run open-source agents, and turn their output into web applications you can publish. It's open source and runs anywhere — your machine, your VPC, or the hosted app.
This repository is the platform superproject: it pulls together the desktop/web app, the agent backend, and the data engine so you can build and run the whole stack from source.
Get started
Pick whichever fits:
Free to start. Pro adds all frontier models and private artifacts — see pricing.
What you can do
For every knowledge worker — creators, strategists, and operators:
- Automate repetitive, multi-step work that involves reading and writing: reports, monitoring, recurring workflows, and scheduled operations.
- Build internal AI tools and artifacts — apps, dashboards, decks, docs, analyses — without engineering, and publish them to a live URL to share with your team.
What's inside
- Connected data. A secure vault links systems like BigQuery, Postgres, Gmail, Drive, HubSpot, Notion, and Linear. Credentials stay scoped per connection — agents never see raw keys.
- Model Router. Switch between frontier models (Claude, GPT, Gemini) and open models (DeepSeek, Qwen, Kimi) without wiring up a key for each provider.
- Open agents. Run interchangeable open-source harnesses — Anton (default) and Hermes — swappable from a dropdown.
- Artifacts. Turn agent output into documents, dashboards, apps, and code, and publish to a live URL.
- Memory, skills & scheduling. Cross-session memory, a reusable skill library, and tasks that run on a schedule.
Build from source
1. Clone the repository
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/mindsdb/minds.git
cd minds
2. Install dependencies
make setup
3. Run
| Mode |
Command |
| Desktop app (Electron) with hot reload |
make dev or make watch |
| Web app in browser with hot reload |
make dev-web |
| Production build |
make build |
| Package for macOS |
make dist-mac |
| Package for Windows |
make dist-win |
Build macOS .app from local uncommitted source |
make pack-local |
| Wipe all local installs + data (fresh start) |
make flush |
Fresh start: make flush removes the local runtime (the cowork-server uv tool and the backend/*/.venvs) and deletes app state in ~/.anton (provider keys) and ~/.cowork (database, hermes, projects). Use it to test the from-scratch install flow or recover from a broken install. It prompts for confirmation — pass FORCE=1 to skip. The next make setup or app launch reinstalls everything. ⚠️ This deletes your conversations and saved keys.
Working on feature branches (submodules)
This repo is a superproject that pins each module (frontend, backend/core_api, backend/core_agent, backend/data-vault) to a commit. To work on module branches without polluting git status or fighting over pins:
1. Pick your branches in a gitignored dev.env (copy the template):
cp dev.env.example dev.env # then set REF=feat/my-thing (or per-module API_REF=…)
2. make follows it — one knob, both run paths:
| Command |
What it does |
make use |
check out your dev.env refs across all submodules |
make dev / make watch |
run the Electron app with live reload against local source |
make dev-web |
run the web SPA with live reload against local source |
make server + make app |
(re)install the desktop server from the configured branch, then launch |
make server-local + make app-local |
install the desktop server from local uncommitted source, then launch |
make pack-local |
build the macOS .app from local uncommitted source (no push needed) |
make refs |
show which refs the next run will use |
make baseline |
reset submodules to the pinned commits |
make pin |
record the current submodule commits as the superproject's pins (one deliberate commit) |
Submodules are configured with ignore = all, so your branch work never shows up as superproject changes — the parent git status stays clean. Pins move only via make pin. See CLAUDE.md for the full workflow.
Deploy anywhere
Cowork is built for flexible deployment — cloud, VPC, on-prem, air-gapped, and hybrid infrastructure — so you keep full control over your infrastructure, models, permissions, and data.
Help & support
🤝 Contribute
Cowork is open source and contributions are welcome — code, integrations, docs, bug reports, and feature ideas. Read the docs to get set up, browse open issues, and say hi on Discord.
🔒 Security
Found a security vulnerability? Please don't open a public issue. Report it privately through our security policy.
📚 Resources
📄 License
This repository is released under the MIT License. Bundled components are governed by their own licenses — see each submodule's repository for details.
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MindsHub Cowork 是一个统一的工作空间，你可以把整个项目委托给 AI 模型（开源或闭源均可）去完成，包括应用、网站、调研、分析、报告以及定时运行的运营任务，并获得可以直接分享的成品结果。