Show HN: Kival – A self-hosted knowledge system for organizations

Category: other

Tags: knowledge-management, self-hosted, rust, collaboration, agents

Score: 6.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 8, Utility: 6)

Kival is a self-hosted collaborative knowledge system for organizations, built in Rust with a PostgreSQL backend, designed to preserve provenance, relationships, and history of organizational knowledge. It combines graph-based knowledge objects, versioning, discussions, and first-class agent access via CLI/SDKs, offering a privacy-focused and self-hosted alternative to SaaS knowledge tools. The project is interesting for its emphasis on durable context and explicit authorship in an era of AI agents contributing to shared knowledge.

Target audience: backend developers, devops, knowledge managers, AI/ML engineers

Repository: https://github.com/selemis-com/kival · Rust · Apache-2.0 · 7 stars

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