A no-code platform that pairs a WYSIWYG interface with AI-assisted tooling to build business systems. It combines pre-built infrastructure with coding agent support for collaborative development and manual configuration.
Project overview
The project pairs a visual, no-code interface with a data-model-driven architecture, enabling both manual and AI-assisted business system development while keeping business data in the user's own database.
Project type
AI Agent · Workflow · Infrastructure
Use cases
Documents & Office · Automation
Deployment
Refer to project documentation
License
License pending
Best for
Developers, enterprise teams, and general users looking to build or modify office-automation applications and AI-agent automations using either a visual no-code UI or a CLI integrated with coding agents.
Key capabilities
Allows people to visually build, modify, and configure data models, pages, workflows, and permissions without coding.
Provides a full CLI and skills that allow mainstream coding agents to handle setup, development, migration, and release end-to-end.
Provides tested and proven data models, permissions, workflows, and audit logs out of the box.
Enables adding new features through composable plugins, allowing mixing of custom and official plugins.
Keeps business data in standard relational structures, decoupled from the UI, allowing use of main and external databases.
Limitations and risks
Using external coding agents, connecting to external agent platforms, or integrating with messaging apps requires corresponding external services.
GPU requirements, minimum hardware specifications, telemetry practices, cost dependencies, and specific database dependencies are not documented.
Getting started
Installation difficulty is rated as easy. Users can install the platform via a global npm CLI and run a single init command. The first success path is running `npm install -g @nocobase/cli` followed by `nb init --ui`.
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GitHub project description: NocoBase is an open-source AI + no-code platform for building business systems fast.
README: NocoBase is an open-source AI + no-code platform for building business systems fast. Instead of generating everything from scratch, AI works on top of production-proven infrastruc…
README: npm install -g @nocobase/cli
README: nb init --ui
README: People can build and modify visually in a WYSIWYG interface, even without AI.