volcengine/OpenViking

Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.

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English / 中文 / 日本語 Website · Live Demo · GitHub · Issues · Docs · Blog  Lark ·  WeChat ·  Discord ·  X OpenViking is an open-source context database for AI agents — one filesystem for everything an agent knows: knowledge, memory, and skills. Most agent memory is a black box: text goes in, embeddings come out, and nobody can see what was actually stored. OpenViking organizes context as a virtual filesystem under viking:// instead. Agents navigate it like files — ls, tree, read, write, grep — and you can open any directory to inspect and edit what your agent knows. Every directory carries a generated summary, so agents can scan summaries first and decide what to read. Try OpenViking Studio in your browser, no installation required. Self-host Web Studio. Architecture · Design rationale The three loading tiers: Semantically processed directories carry L0/L1 summaries, so agents can judge relevance…

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Self-evolving Context Database for AI Agents. Unify Agent Memory, Knowledge RAG and Skills.

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Owner: volcengine
Primary language: Python
Stars: 37,818
Forks: 2,925
Open issues + pull requests: 743
License: AGPL-3.0
Archived: No
Default branch: main
Created: 2026-01-05T07:11:17.000Z
Last push: 2026-09-16T06:19:21.000Z

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Owner-supplied topics: agent-memory, agent-plugins, agentic-rag, context-database, dsh-plugin, self-evolving

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