WeKnora
by Tencent
WeKnora is a self-hosted platform that turns a team's documents into a searchable knowledge base. You can ask it questions, run a reasoning agent for multi-step tasks, or let it build and maintain a wiki from the same material.
- Stars
- 35.6k
- Licence
- MIT
- Runs on
- A small server
- Setup
- Moderate
- Language
- Go
- Age
- 462 days
What you can do with it
- Upload documents such as PDFs, Word files and spreadsheets, then ask questions and get answers drawn from them
- Connect it to Slack, Telegram, Feishu or WeCom so staff can query the knowledge base in chat
- Embed a Q&A widget on a website or link it to tools such as Cursor and Claude through its MCP server
Make money with it
A freelancer could set up and maintain private document Q&A systems for small companies as a paid service.
An idea, not financial advice. Check the licence before charging for anything built on it.
Ways a business could use it
- Build an internal helpdesk that answers staff questions from handbooks, policies and process documents, saving time spent on repeat queries
- Offer customers a website chatbot trained on product documentation, cutting the volume of support emails
Can you use it commercially?
Free to use, change and sell (MIT-style terms in the licence file). Some folders may carry other terms.
Not legal advice. Read the project's licence file before building a product on it.
Getting it running
Clone the repository, copy the example .env file, then start it with Docker Compose and open it at http://localhost.
Follow the official instructions in the project README.
Things to check
- Licence is not clearly stated (listed as NOASSERTION), so check terms before commercial use
- Needs an LLM: either a paid API key or a local Ollama model, which requires enough RAM
- Many integrations and documentation are aimed at the Chinese market (WeChat, WeCom, Feishu)
- Large feature set with several optional services, so setup and upgrades take care
Who's talking about it
- Rost (rosgluk): Trending Open Source AI Projects on GitHub, October 2026 Featured in a roundup
- Rost Glukhov: Trending Open Source AI Projects on GitHub, October 2026 Featured in a roundup
Checked 27 Oct 2026. Summary drafted by AI from the project's README.
