Odysseus: a Self-Hosted AI Workspace With a Model Cookbook That Reads Your Hardware First
Self-hosted chat UIs are a solved problem. Self-hosted workspaces aren't, and that's the gap Odysseus aims at. It's an open-source (AGPL-3.0), Docker-deployed AI workspace: chat, agents with tools and MCP, local model serving, deep research, documents, email, notes, tasks and calendar. No telemetry
Posted on Oct 30 • Originally published at automata.sale
Self-hosted chat UIs are a solved problem. Self-hosted workspaces aren't, and that's the gap Odysseus aims at. It's an open-source (AGPL-3.0), Docker-deployed AI workspace: chat, agents with tools and MCP, local model serving, deep research, documents, email, notes, tasks and calendar. No telemetry. Your models, your hardware, your data, as the tagline goes. I haven't deployed it in production, so treat this as an engineer's walkthrough of the project based on its docs and repository, with the caveats called out honestly at the end.
git clone https://github.com/odysseus-dev/odysseus cd odysseus cp.env.example.env docker compose up -d --build Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Then open http://localhost:7011. A multi-arch image is published on ghcr.io if you'd rather pull a ready build than compile locally.
The module list reads less like a chat app and more like a small operating system for knowledge work: