OKAI

Self-hosted autonomous coding agent with team-knowledge RAG.

Runs against your local LLM (Ollama / qwen / llama / mistral) or any provider. No cloud dependency required.

What OKAI is

OKAI is a VS Code extension that gives you an autonomous coding agent inside your IDE. The agent reads your code, plans changes, runs commands, and edits files — all with your approval, every step of the way.

What makes OKAI different from cloud-based assistants:

• Self-hosted by default. Connect to your own Ollama instance, or bring keys for any provider. No phone-home, no third-party data sharing.
• Team-knowledge RAG via MCP. Connect OKAI to your team's design guides, ADRs, conventions, and any other context your developers rely on — via the Model Context Protocol.
• Full transparency. Every file read and every proposed diff is shown before it's applied. Checkpoints let you revert anything.
• Your code stays on your machine. Tool execution happens locally — OKAI orchestrates, your environment runs the code.

Getting started

1. Install the extension from VS Code Marketplace (or from a .vsix build).
2. Open the OKAI sidebar (activity bar icon).
3. Configure your model provider:
   • Local: point Ollama at qwen2.5:14b or any other model
   • Cloud: bring an API key for Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, etc.
4. Optionally connect your team's MCP servers for RAG, databases, APIs.
   • To connect to the OKAI backend's RAG knowledge base, see OKAI_RAG_INTEGRATION.md.
5. Start a task. OKAI plans, asks, and codes.

Building from source

npm install
cd webview-ui && npm install && cd ..
npm run protos
npm run compile

Then F5 in VS Code to launch an Extension Development Host with OKAI installed.

Attribution

OKAI is a fork of Cline (Apache 2.0), an open-source coding agent created by Saoud Rizwan and contributors. We're grateful for Cline's work and its open-source license that made this fork possible. See LICENSE and NOTICE for details.

The OKAI fork adds:

• Self-hosted-first defaults (telemetry disabled, no cline.bot phone-home)
• Tight integration with the OKAI backend's RAG knowledge base, GitHub/GitLab repo support, and findings store (via MCP)
• Light rebrand for the OKAI product

License

Apache 2.0. See LICENSE.