DocsMint

A self-hosted AI-native knowledge workspace and installable PWA for people, applications, and AI agents.

DocsMint stores documents in a structured JSON editor model first. Markdown is the convenient second format for editing, importing, and exporting content. Automatic chunking, 1024-dimensional embeddings, multilingual hybrid search, and GraphRAG make the same knowledge base useful to people, applications, and agents through the web application, REST API, TypeScript SDK, CLI, and MCP server.

Why DocsMint?

• Write naturally in a rich visual editor or raw Markdown.
• Find meaning, not only keywords with exact, lexical, fuzzy, vector, multilingual expansion, and graph retrieval fused through RRF.
• Keep retrieval current with automatic, incremental chunking and re-embedding after document or metadata changes.
• Connect agents directly through REST, a typed SDK, CLI, or MCP.
• Control access with global keys or category-scoped read, edit, and write permissions.
• Own the full stack: application data, vectors, graph, queue, and files run on infrastructure you control.

What's new in DocsMint 0.7.0?

• Signed workspace assertions. Trusted server-to-server hosts can restrict an assertion to one category with independent read, edit, and write permissions; an omitted scope remains workspace-wide and role-derived.
• Consistent effective-category authorization. Direct and folder-inherited categories are enforced before counts, pagination, indexing, search, and GraphRAG retrieval. Index status is read-only; refresh requires write.
• Release-safe indexing. Context-aware embedding generations and recovery prevent stale metadata work from becoming active.

This OSS release adds no host RBAC, billing, invitations, or product UI.

DocsMint 0.7.0 includes the 0.6.8 reliability fixes:

• Workspace-safe recovery. Explicit operator reindexing carries the document's workspace into every durable pipeline stage, including RLS reads.
• Consistent operator authentication. Both documented admin key headers bypass interactive rate limits during maintenance operations.

DocsMint 0.6.8 includes the self-host reliability fixes introduced in 0.6.7:

• Reliable HTTPS sessions. Every protected SvelteKit route accepts Better Auth's secure production cookie as well as the local-development cookie.
• Cleaner retrieval. Deleted documents are excluded before exact, lexical, fuzzy, vector, chunk, and graph ranking.
• Explicit GraphRAG providers. Entity extraction requires its own chat-completion URL and never sends chat requests to an embedding endpoint.
• Safer self-host defaults. Auth origins are validated configuration, the SeaweedFS Filer UI binds to loopback, folder moves refresh knowledge metadata, and backups exclude .env.

DocsMint 0.6.7 includes the safe index recovery introduced in 0.6.6:

• Safe explicit index recovery. Admin document reindexing keeps the active generation searchable until a new generation has passed embedding, graph, summary, and finalize stages.
• Truthful queue admission. Maintenance requests force a replacement generation and report an error when durable enqueue fails instead of returning a false-positive success.
• Verified MCP distribution. The official MCP Registry manifest, npm stdio package, hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint, bundled Skill, prompts, resources, and 17-tool catalog remain one versioned contract.

DocsMint 0.6.6 includes the registry metadata fixes released in 0.6.3-0.6.5 and the complete MCP foundation introduced in 0.6.2:

• Official MCP identity. DocsMint now publishes the verified io.github.HiAi-gg/docsmint registry identity for both the npm stdio server and the hosted Streamable HTTP endpoint.
• One capability implementation. The public @hiai-gg/docsmint/mcp contract lets hosts provide a scoped API client while reusing the same 17 tools, two prompts, three resources, and bundled document-manager Skill.
• Current protocol runtime. The MCP server uses the stable v2 server package and retains compatible stdio negotiation for existing clients.

DocsMint 0.6.2 includes the reliable knowledge refresh and scoped automation foundation introduced in 0.6.1:

• Reliable knowledge refreshes. Explicit full reindexing now supersedes failed or stuck generations, retries release stale extraction claims, and publishes embeddings, summaries, and graph projections only for the current document generation.
• Safer scoped automation. Global keys can manage the complete document domain, while category keys stay confined to their category, folders, documents, tags, graph traversal, and index operations according to explicit read, edit, and write permissions.
• Portable agent integration. The MCP package exposes 17 document-manager tools, two reusable prompts, three context resources, and a bundled Skill, with Bunx, NPX, and local-checkout installation paths.
• Compatible frontend packaging. Published frontend entrypoints resolve the canonical hiai-ui exports used by the source build and packed consumers.

DocsMint 0.6.1 includes the mobile and PWA foundation introduced in 0.6.0:

• Installable, update-safe PWA. A versioned service worker, responsive app shell, install prompt, and deterministic offline fallback make DocsMint feel at home on desktop and mobile browsers.
• Private offline reading and explicit drafts. Identity-partitioned local snapshots keep selected documents readable offline. Drafts autosave locally, then return through a deliberate review-and-apply flow after reconnecting; DocsMint never silently replays offline mutations.
• Touch-safe mobile navigation. Sidebar document actions, Copy controls, and overflow menus remain reachable on touch devices without depending on hover, with accessible targets and narrow-screen layouts.
• A flexible editor contract. Reactive visual/Markdown mode preferences, Minimal toolbar support, and a reusable compact TipTap editor let hosts match the writing surface to the task without forking editor internals.
• Stable document discovery. The public API and TypeScript SDK provide deterministic cursor pagination and global sorting by title, category, folder, or update time, with canonical category and folder metadata.
• Safe standalone sharing. Standalone DocsMint exposes public links with expiry, optional passwords, Copy, and revoke controls. Host-managed consumers retain their existing restricted invitation workflow.
• Knowledge built for agents. REST, the typed SDK, CLI, and MCP server expose scoped document operations, while multilingual hybrid search and GraphRAG help people and AI agents retrieve connected knowledge instead of isolated keyword matches.

DocsMint combines an installable self-hosted PWA knowledge base, mobile document workspace, offline reading, local drafts, multilingual semantic search, GraphRAG, MCP, a TypeScript SDK, CLI, and composable frontend hosts in one open-source system.

For self-hosted customization, see PWA hosting and extension points.

Fastest installation: give this prompt to your agent

If you are installing DocsMint through an AI coding agent, use this path first. It keeps the setup to Docker plus one provider choice and avoids unnecessary source-code changes.

Install DocsMint from https://github.com/HiAi-gg/docsmint.
Verify Docker and Docker Compose v2, clone the repository, and run
`bash scripts/quickstart.sh`. Do not print or commit .env. Ask me to enter only
an OpenRouter key or select Ollama, then run quickstart again. Verify
http://localhost:50701, http://localhost:50700/api/health, and
`docker compose ps`. Do not replace Bun, rewrite migrations, disable GraphRAG,
or delete volumes.

After startup, open http://localhost:50701 and create the first account. For manual installation, use the Docker quickstart below.

Quickstart

Requirements

Read the full README on GitHub →