Kanwas
An open-source brain for your team
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Kanwas is an open-source shared knowledge base designed to be used by both people and AI agents. It holds a team's important know-how, research, decisions, and data, but rather than being passive storage, it is structured so that context is genuinely workable, retrievable and usable in a task, for humans and for agents alike.
The framing is a common brain that a person and their agent, and a colleague and their agent, all draw on and contribute to.
It is aimed at teams adopting AI agents who need a place for shared context that agents can actually use, and want it open source and self-hostable rather than locked in a proprietary tool.
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Why we picked it
Kanwas earns its spot for being structured for both people and agents to work with, not just passive storage — genuinely retrievable context an agent can act on is worth naming against a wiki that's readable by humans but useless as input to anything automated.
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