honcho
★ 7.1kGNU Affero General Public License v3.0Open Source — No Paywall4 Containers — 4 containers — moderate hosting footprintDocker · Source · PackageNeeds Pgvector
About
Honcho is a memory infrastructure project aimed at developers building stateful agents and applications that need persistent, queryable context over time. It models users, agents, groups, projects,...
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Features
- persistent agent memory
- background reasoning
- peer representations
- session context
- hybrid search
- file upload
- MCP integration
- Claude Code integration
- OpenCode integration
- OpenClaw integration
Details
- Last Updated
- Sep 8, 2026
- Created
- Sep 10, 2023
- Install Methods
- dockersourcepackage-manager
- Requirements
- FastAPI serverPythonTypeScript SDKAPI key for managed serviceorganization account
- API
- REST
- Privacy & Independence
- Cloud: Optional
- User Model
- Multi-UserMulti-Tenant
- Deployment
Deployment: Docker Compose ✓4 Containers — moderate hosting footprintRuns as 4 containers
Docker Compose
4 services · database: pgvector · infra: pgvector, redis
no resource limits declared
needs persistent storage (7 volumes)
honcho-cli/src/honcho_cli/local/templates/docker-compose.yml · @ 9380bf2 · scanned Aug 26, 2026
# Managed by `honcho start`. Re-rendered on every start — edit .env and config.toml, not this file.
#
# Images: ghcr.io/plastic-labs/honcho (API + deriver), pgvector/pgvector:pg15, redis:8.2
# Ports bind to 127.0.0.1. Auth is off (AUTH_USE_AUTH=false in .env).
services:
api:
image: ${HONCHO_IMAGE:-ghcr.io/plastic-labs/honcho:latest}
entrypoint: ["sh", "docker/entrypoint.sh"]
depends_on:
database:
condition: service_healthy
redis:
condition: service_healthy
ports:
- "127.0.0.1:${API_PORT:-8000}:8000"
healthcheck:
test:
[
"CMD",
# ...
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