MaxKB

A platform for building enterprise AI agents and knowledge-base Q&A, with RAG, a workflow engine and MCP tools, from the team behind 1Panel.

23.1k stars, 3.2k forks Python On GitHub since September 2023

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What is MaxKB?

MaxKB, short for Max Knowledge Brain, takes uploaded documents or crawls online ones, splits and vectorizes them, and answers questions from that knowledge. Visual agent flows and tool calls over MCP let you build assistants for customer service, internal knowledge bases, research or education. It works with many hosted and local models, and agents can be embedded into other systems. The interface comes in Chinese and English.

Good fit if

  • You build a customer-service or internal Q&A bot and want it running quickly.
  • Your organization works mainly in Chinese and wants a product built for that market.

Look elsewhere if

  • You want a larger international community and more integrations: Dify.
  • You need complex document parsing: RAGFlow.

Before you adopt it

MaxKB is GPL-3.0, published by the 1Panel team at FIT2CLOUD, and the repository contains no paid modules. It installs as a Docker container.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

MaxKB health: is it still maintained?

82 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    192 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 30 October 2026.
    28 / 30
  • Contributors
    12 people wrote the latest 100 commits; the most active wrote 39% of them.
    15 / 20
  • Releases
    15 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v2.10.8-lts, on 22 October 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 32% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 6 hours.
    15 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

MaxKB license: is it open source?

MaxKB uses GPL-3.0, an open-source license approved by the OSI.

  1. September 2023First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayGPL-3.0.

How to run MaxKB yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
None in the repository
Setup effort
Not rated: no compose file to judge from
Kubernetes
No Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
2 languages

Install instructions: maxkb.cn or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about MaxKB

Is MaxKB open source?

Yes. MaxKB is published under GPL-3.0, an OSI-approved open-source license.

Is MaxKB still maintained?

Its health score is 82 of 100 (actively developed). It had 192 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 30 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 22 October 2026.

How do I run MaxKB?

You can run it with Docker. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to MaxKB?

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