Yao Freemium

What it does

Yao (Yao Agents) is a Go-based, self-hostable platform for organizing AI agents and workspaces so they're accessible from one place across desktop, mobile, browser, or API, instead of being scattered across separate chat windows and tools.

What is inside

• A task board that turns conversations into trackable, actionable items
• Local-first, self-hosted architecture, so your agents and data can run on infrastructure you control
• Integration with a "DeepSeek Harness" for underlying AI capability
• An open API for embedding agents into your own applications
• WebSocket and SSE support for real-time updates across connected clients

Works with

Accessible from a desktop application, an Android beta APK, and the browser, all syncing against the same self-hosted backend; documentation is provided in both English and Chinese.

How to install or connect

A desktop app is distributed via the project's download page, with browser access and a self-hosted deployment path also documented; full setup instructions are in the project's docs site.

Maintenance and safety

Dual-licensed (English/Chinese terms), with roughly 8,000 stars, 712 forks and over 4,200 commits on the main branch, plus an active Discord community — solid signs of a real, maintained project rather than an abandoned experiment. Because it's a multi-device platform with an open API and real-time sync, treat your self-hosted instance like any other internet-facing service: keep it updated and control who has API and account access, especially if you expose it beyond your local network.

Who should use it

Individuals or small teams who want one unified, self-hosted place to track AI-agent conversations and turn them into a task board, and who want the same workspace reachable from desktop, phone and browser rather than tied to a single client. It suits builders who also want to embed agent functionality into their own products via the open API, rather than only using Yao as an end-user chat client, and who are comfortable running and maintaining a self-hosted Go service.