Overview
Coze Studio is the open-source core of the Coze development platform, which the project says has served tens of thousands of enterprises and millions of developers. It gives you a visual environment for building AI agents and apps: you combine prompts, knowledge bases, plugins and workflows, then publish the result and call it through an API or Chat SDK. The backend is Go and the frontend is React.
Key capabilities
- Agent builder: build, publish and manage agents with workflows and knowledge bases.
- Workflows: visual workflow editor for business logic.
- Resources: plugins, knowledge bases, databases and prompts.
- Model management: connect providers such as OpenAI and Volcengine.
- API and Chat SDK: embed agents in your own apps.
Tradeoffs
- The repository's last push was in July 2026, so it is less active than many tools here.
- Some features of the hosted Coze platform aren't in the open-source edition.
- Much of the usage documentation lives on coze.cn and is Chinese-first.
Ideal for
- Teams that want a self-hosted visual agent builder
- Prototyping agents with workflows and knowledge bases
Not ideal for
- Code-first teams who prefer a framework
- Public deployments without security review
Getting started
- Check you have at least 2 CPU cores, 4 GB RAM, and Docker with Docker Compose running.
- Clone the repository and run
make web(macOS or Linux), or copydocker/.env.exampletodocker/.envand run Docker Compose on Windows. - Register an account at
localhost:8888/sign, then add a model in the admin model-management page. - Open
localhost:8888and build your first agent. Review the security notes before exposing it publicly.
Technical notes
- Deploy: Docker Compose (
make web), then localhost:8888 - Stack: Go backend, React + TypeScript frontend
- License: Apache-2.0
- Source: coze-dev/coze-studio
- GitHub stars: 21,818 (as of 2026-11-12)