# Yao Agents

> Self-hosted app for running autonomous AI agents and workspaces across all your devices, with a task board and open API.

Yao Agents is a self-hosted application from Infinite Wisdom Software that lets users manage AI agents and workspaces across every device they own. Tasks are tracked on a board and reachable from desktop, mobile, browser, or API. It is distributed as a desktop app for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with an Android beta, and the source is published on GitHub.

## What It Is

Yao Agents is an agent management and execution platform. Agents run on dedicated machines you connect, working in parallel, while one app manages the whole fleet. The docs state that every machine added is more capacity, and that the user's own computer stays untouched while agents work on remote devices.

## How the workflow works

Each workspace is isolated, and work accumulates into documents that become a knowledge base. Agents can read what they need from any connected node. Users describe what they need in a conversation, which becomes a task on a board. Continued use is said to grow the task into an agent purpose-built for that work. Task agents can be connected to other apps or shared with others.

## Engine and extensibility

The features page describes a single-binary engine (Yao Engine) with a JSON/YAML DSL, a built-in V8 TypeScript runtime, a sandbox for isolated code execution, native MCP support, and built-in GraphRAG search. It lists 30+ built-in assistants and extension through Hooks, MCP, Processes, and Skills, and says it is compatible with the Claude and OpenClaw ecosystem. Agents integrate via standard APIs with SSE and WebSocket support.

## Licensing and deployment

The code uses a modified Apache License 2.0 with additional commercial conditions covering branding, certificate verification, and organization size. The enterprise page describes on-premise deployment, audit logs, and dedicated support.

## Features
- Task board that turns conversations into tasks
- Isolated workspaces that build a knowledge base
- Run agents across multiple devices (Windows, macOS, Linux, Docker, VMs)
- Open API with SSE and WebSocket support
- Scheduled and autonomous execution with approval guardrails
- 30+ built-in assistants
- Native MCP support
- Built-in GraphRAG hybrid search
- Secure sandbox compatible with Agent Skills standard
- Single-binary engine with DSL and V8 TypeScript runtime
- Self-hosted with on-premise deployment option

## Integrations
MCP, Claude, OpenClaw, DeepSeek, Docker

## Platforms
WINDOWS, MACOS, LINUX, ANDROID, WEB, API

## Pricing
Free

## Version
v1.0.0

## Links
- Website: https://yaoagents.com
- Documentation: https://yaoagents.com/docs
- Repository: https://github.com/YaoApp/yao
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/yao-agents