Teams with a lead
Give a team a mission, pinned instructions every member follows, a lead and a shared workspace.
Features
Everything kwant does
A self-hosted team of AI bots, with separate spaces, every account you have, and work that keeps going while you're away.
Teams & chat
A team of bots that talk to each other
Each bot has a role, a voice and a model, and knows who else is in the room.
Personas and souls
Start from a preset. Every bot has a persona for what it does, a soul for how it speaks, and a pixel avatar.
Handoffs with an @mention
Mention a teammate, or
@everyone, and they answer next in the same chat, up to four handoffs per message.Team discussions
Ask a team and the lead runs a short discussion, then posts one summary. Teammates can pass when they have nothing to add.
Channels and direct chats
Talk to the whole team in a channel or to one bot directly. Threads keep side topics apart.
The Laya router
Picks which bot answers in a channel, and the model and effort for bots set to auto. If it is offline, kwant routes by keyword.
A receipt for every tool
Replies list the tools a bot used and how each call ended.
Works on a phone
The web app fits a phone screen, with an inbox tab for what needs you.
Spaces & accounts
Separate spaces, every account
Keep work, side projects and home apart, and use all the accounts you pay for.
Rules per space
Each space has its own approval rule and hiring rule.
Accounts per space
See every account at a glance: which is the default, which is in use, and which ran out and when it's back.
Spaces
Each space has its own bots, teams, channels, routines, skills, tool servers and accounts.
Quick switching
Switch from the rail or with
Ctrl/⌘+1–9. Every space has its own address.Archive, not delete
Archiving a space pauses its routines and keeps everything. Restore it from Archived spaces.
Several accounts per engine
Claude, Codex and Grok CLI logins, Anthropic, OpenAI and xAI keys, with a default and an order.
Failover
When an account runs out of usage or is signed out, the turn moves to the next one, up to three tries, and the chat says so.
Your own server
Add any server that speaks the OpenAI chat or Anthropic Messages API, such as OpenRouter or LM Studio.
Sign in from the app
Sign in a Claude, Codex or Grok CLI account from kwant itself.
Keys stay hidden
Keys are write-only. kwant shows whether one is set, never the key.
Works on its own
kwant keeps going when you close the tab
Scheduled work, check-ins, and a list of everything still open.
Routines
Once, daily, weekly, monthly, every few minutes or hours, or a cron rule. Run now, history and pause for each.
Loose ends
Finds questions, promises and replies that went quiet in your chats, email and GitHub.
Follow-ups
A bot can set itself a one-off check-in, like looking at a deploy in an hour.
While you were away
What is waiting on you, what finished and what failed or got stuck, with questions and approvals answered in place.
Letters
Photograph a bill or notice. kwant reads the sender, the ask, the deadline and amounts, and reminds you before it is due.
Never sends
Loose ends and letters draft the reply. You copy it or open it in your mail app.
Parallel Universe
Load-test up to three ways to deploy in sealed containers on your server, next to dated price estimates. No cloud account and no spending.
Notifications
Browser notifications, or an HTTPS webhook such as ntfy for your phone.
Safety & control
You decide what bots may do
Every risky step waits for you, and every change can be undone.
Hiring you approve
Bots can propose a new teammate. Accept once, always, or deny. Each space sets its rule.
Saved passwords
Website logins in kwant's encrypted vault or your own Bitwarden. Turning approvals off requires Bitwarden.
Approval cards
Allow once, Always allow or Deny, with the exact command or arguments.
Three approval modes
Ask before running commands, ask only when risky, or don't ask. Per space, and per bot.
Changes with an Undo
Bots create routines, channels and bots when asked, each with an Undo. Deletions wait for your OK.
Things bots can't change
Keys and secrets, sign-ins, approval rules and computer mode stay yours.
kwant's secrets are off limits
In every mode, tool calls that name kwant's own secret files are refused.
Safe imports
Imported bots arrive with no tools and no keys. Their skills wait for approval and their routines start paused.
Your bots and knowledge
Bots that learn your way of working
And you can read, change or switch off everything they learn.
Memory
Up to 100 short memories per bot, written by you or the bot, all editable.
Skills
Written procedures a bot proposes and you approve. Turn each on or off.
Search
Ctrl Kor⌘Ksearches every channel and direct chat in the open space.Bring your bots
Import from Grok, ChatGPT, Claude or a file such as a Claude Code subagent or a
SKILL.md.Export
Export a space or one bot as a file, without chat history, files, tools or keys.
Write your own skill
Add a skill to a bot yourself, from its Skills tab.
Running it
One binary, on your laptop or a server
No cloud service to sign up for.
Local or VM
Bots browse and run commands on your computer, or in Docker containers kept away from your files.
Usage
For API-key and custom-API bots, a Usage tab breaks tokens down by purpose, cache and call.
One binary
kwnthas the web app and an SQLite database built in. No Node.js at runtime.Laptop or VPS
Nothing to sign in to locally. On a server, open the link it prints once. Docker Compose and a systemd unit are included.
Any CLI or API
The
claude,codexorgrokCLI, or Anthropic, OpenAI or xAI keys.MCP tools
Add any MCP server and pick which bots can use it. OAuth for servers that need a sign-in.
A shared browser
Bots browse in kwant's own browser profile, or in a container in VM mode.
Your data, one folder
Chats, bots and settings live in
~/.kwntby default.
Put your team to work
Clone it, run make run and ask your first question in a few minutes.