Kody

Kody is a personal assistant platform built by Kent C. Dodds and the Epic Web team, designed to give AI agents a durable home that outlives any single conversation. It runs on Cloudflare Workers and speaks the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making it compatible with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex, Copilot, Grok, and any other MCP-capable host. The source is available on GitHub under the Functional Source License (FSL-1.1-ALv2), which converts to Apache 2.0 two years after each release.

What It Is

Kody is not a chat app or an AI agent itself — it is the persistent layer that sits behind the agents you already use. When you connect an agent to your Kody account, that agent gains access to durable memory, encrypted secrets, saved code packages, scheduled jobs, webhooks, and a personal email inbox. The core idea is that one-off agent work should become permanent: your agent explores a problem, saves the result as a package, and Kody runs it on a schedule with no model in the loop and no tokens spent.

How the Architecture Works

Kody is organized as an Nx monorepo deployed across a fleet of Cloudflare Workers:

• kody-production — the origin worker handling the Remix UI, MCP HTTP endpoints, OAuth, email, and queues
• kody-platform — Durable Objects for MCP state, mailboxes, metering, and repo sessions
• kody-runtime — package apps, the invoke API, and StorageRunner
• kody-jobs — cron scheduling and the JobManager

The MCP surface is intentionally compact, favoring powerful search and Code Mode execute flows over a large static tool catalog. Each signed-in user gets a fully isolated assistant with their own packages, jobs, secrets, memories, and storage.

Core Primitives

• Shared memory — durable facts and preferences that follow the account across every connected agent
• Secrets — API keys and OAuth grants that code can reference by name but agents can never read; there is deliberately no secret_get capability
• Packages — reusable saved code that agents write and improve over time, with exports, scheduled jobs, inbound webhooks, and optional hosted web app surfaces
• Jobs, workflows, and webhooks — cron schedules, deferred one-shot runs, and HTTPS endpoints for providers like Sentry, GitHub, and Stripe
• Personal email inbox — every account gets an email address; inbound mail can trigger automations and outbound mail can send notifications
• Community packages — a public catalog where users can browse, fork, and publish automations

Agent Interoperability

A key design goal is that switching agents should not lose context. Packages, secrets, jobs, and memories stay on the account; connecting a new MCP host immediately surfaces the same home. The homepage lists supported agents including Cursor, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Warp, Amp, Gemini, and OpenClaw, as well as integrations with GitHub, Linear, Sentry, Cloudflare, and Slack.

Update: v2026.09.11

The latest release is Kody v2026.09.11, published on September 11, 2026. The GitHub repository shows active development with 613 stars and 61 forks as of that date. The tech stack includes TypeScript 6.0, Node 26, Remix 3 (beta), Cloudflare D1 for the database, Cloudflare KV for sessions and OAuth, and Durable Objects for MCP state. The project launched publicly and was featured on Product Hunt alongside a launch video explaining the product direction.

Self-Hosting and Licensing

Kody's source is openly available on GitHub and can be forked and self-hosted. The Functional Source License permits use, modification, and redistribution for any purpose other than competing commercial use, and each version automatically converts to Apache 2.0 on its second anniversary. Account data can be exported as JSON from account settings, though secret values are excluded from exports for security reasons.