About KiwiFS
KiwiFS is a Markdown filesystem for agents and teams. Its premise is that raw Markdown files are just files, with no search, versioning or structure, so it makes them writable, searchable, queryable and versioned while keeping files as the source of truth and every other index rebuildable. It ships as one binary with zero configuration, or runs in Docker.
It offers 62 MCP tools for clients such as Claude and Cursor, a web UI with a block editor, wiki links, backlinks and a knowledge graph embedded in the binary, full-text search using SQLite FTS5 with pluggable vector search backends, and Git versioning where each write is an atomic commit with blame, diff and point-in-time restore. DQL, a SQL-like query language over frontmatter, supports TABLE, LIST, COUNT, WHERE, SORT and GROUP BY. Files are reachable over REST, MCP, NFS, S3, WebDAV and FUSE, and 19 importers bring in data from Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Notion, CSV and Obsidian.
Further features include content health checks for stale pages, broken links and orphans, multiple isolated spaces, and webhooks for write and delete events. KiwiFS is written in Go and self-hosted; its license is listed as Other.
Key features
- Markdown files with Git versioning
- 62 MCP tools for AI clients
- Full-text and vector search
- DQL queries over frontmatter
- Access via REST, S3, NFS, WebDAV and FUSE
- Importers for Notion, Obsidian and databases
Good fit for
- →Shared memory and knowledge base for AI agents
- →Searchable, versioned team wiki in Markdown
- Built with
- Go
- Tags
- markdown
- ai-agents
- knowledge-base
- mcp
- golang
- wiki
- self-hosted
- git
KiwiFS: questions and answers
- What is KiwiFS used for?
- KiwiFS is a single-binary Markdown filesystem for AI agents and teams that adds search, Git versioning, queries and 62 MCP tools to plain files. It is a good fit for shared memory and knowledge base for AI agents; and searchable, versioned team wiki in Markdown.
- Is KiwiFS open source?
- Yes. KiwiFS is open source under a custom licence. Its source code is on GitHub at kiwifs/kiwifs and is written mainly in Go.
- Is KiwiFS free?
- Yes. KiwiFS is open source, so the software itself is free to use under the terms of its own licence.
- Can I self-host KiwiFS?
- Yes. KiwiFS can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure.
- What are some alternatives to KiwiFS?
- Similar open-source tools in the AI Infrastructure category include Yuxi, RAGFlow and MCP Toolbox. SaaS products in the same category include AgentGov, Amazon Bedrock and AnyRouter.
- Is KiwiFS actively maintained?
- Yes. The most recent commit to KiwiFS was on 29 September 2026, and the latest release is v0.19.65, published on 29 September 2026. The project has 630 stars on GitHub.
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