windmill-labs/windmill
Code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents, on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator (benchmarked against Airflow, Prefect and Temporal). Business teams build with AI, engineers control what ships. Open-source alternative to Lovable, Retool and n8n.
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Open-source, self-hostable code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents, running on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator. Engineers write code in 20+ languages and sync it with Git. Business teams build on the same platform with AI, while review, promotion between environments and isolated workers keep engineers in control of what ships. Self-hostable alternative to Lovable, Retool, n8n and a simplified Temporal. Scripts are turned into sharable UIs, APIs and cron jobs automatically, and can be composed together into flows, data pipelines, AI agents or full-code React and Svelte apps. Supported languages: Python, TypeScript, Go, Bash, SQL, GraphQL, PowerShell, Rust, and more. Try it - Website - Docs - Discord - Hub - Contributing Windmill is fully open-sourced (AGPLv3) and Windmill Labs offers dedicated instances and commercial support and licenses. https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d80de1d9-64de-4d89-aacd-6df23fa81fc4 Business teams and engineers build on the same Windmill instance. What the AI builds is an ordinary script, flow or…
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- Windmill - Code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents
- Build with AI, ship with review
- Main Concepts
- What the code looks like
- Data: data tables, DuckDB and DuckLake
- Develop locally or in the browser
- Stack
- Fastest Self-Hostable Workflow Engine
- Security
- Performance
- Architecture
- How to self-host
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What this repository does
Code-first platform for workflows, apps and AI agents, on the fastest self-hostable orchestrator (benchmarked against Airflow, Prefect and Temporal). Business teams build with AI, engineers control what ships. Open-source alternative to Lovable, Retool and n8n.
Repository facts
- Owner
- windmill-labs
- Primary language
- Rust
- Stars
- 18,348
- Forks
- 1,136
- Open issues + pull requests
- 870
- License
- Other
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2022-05-05T02:21:17.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-01T09:53:35.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-agents, airflow-alternative, internal-tools, open-source, orchestration, postgresql, python, rust, self-hostable, self-hosted, typescript, vibe-coding, workflow-engine
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