Open Bee AI

Getting started

Sign up at openbee.ai/sign-up. You get a Hobby workspace with Bee Fast (Claude Haiku 4.5) for $2/month.
Try chat at /w/<your-slug>/chat. Toggle Visual Mode for diagrams and charts.
Queue a mission from Mission Control. Without a daemon, tasks run in demo mode (mock executor). With a daemon linked, they dispatch to your local open-bee CLI.

Choose your path

Self-hosting guide →

Run the open-source agent daemon on your own machine — your code, your keys, your hardware.

API reference →

REST endpoints for daemons + Bearer-token auth. Stable contract you can build against.

Source code ↗

The whole monorepo on GitHub. Daemon is Apache-2.0; cloud surface is source-available.

Security model →

Encryption, isolation, sub-processors. What we protect and how.

Concepts

Workspace. Your billing and isolation boundary. Members, tasks, conversations, and bridges all scope here.
Daemon. A local process you run via open-bee start. Polls the cloud for tasks scoped to your workspace; runs them with your provider keys; reports back.
Mission. A long-running agentic task with structured events. The Kanban board on /missions is a live view of their state.
Bridge. A channel adapter — Telegram bot today, WhatsApp on the way. Lets your bee answer where your team already chats.
Visual Mode. A response post-processor that renders Mermaid diagrams and Recharts charts inside the chat surface, in a sandboxed iframe.
BYOK. Bring your own Anthropic / OpenAI / Google key. Set it in Settings → BYOK and your prompts route through your provider account, never our shared quota.

Quick CLI reference

# Install (from a checkout of github.com/openbee/openbee)
pnpm install
pnpm --filter @openbee/agent-runtime build

# Link to your workspace
pnpm --filter @openbee/agent-runtime open-bee link \
  --workspace your-slug \
  --key obee_your_api_key

# Run the daemon
pnpm --filter @openbee/agent-runtime open-bee start

# Inspect status
pnpm --filter @openbee/agent-runtime open-bee status

Where to next

Self-hosting covers prerequisites, environment setup, and operating the daemon at scale.
API reference documents every endpoint including request/response shapes and rate-limit headers.
Changelog tracks every release.
Stuck? Email hello@openbee.ai or file an issue on GitHub.