Arkon - Enterprise AI Knowledge Hub

Connect your organization's knowledge to any Ai Client. Self-hosted, on-premise.

Arkon is the central layer between your documents and your employees' AI clients. Upload your SOPs, policies, product specs, and internal docs - Arkon compiles them into a structured knowledge wiki and serves it directly to Claude via MCP. Every employee gets the right context, automatically, without copy-pasting.

Setup Guide · Architecture · Wiki System · MCP & Claude · AI Skills · Access Control

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The problem

Most organizations adopt AI team-by-team, with no shared knowledge, inconsistent context, and no visibility into what information Ai Client is actually working with. Every employee manually pastes documents, repeats the same background, and gets different answers depending on what they remembered to include.

Arkon treats your AI client as a managed organizational resource - not a personal chatbot.

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How it works

Knowledge compounds. Every document you add enriches the existing wiki rather than creating isolated fragments. By the time an employee asks Claude a question, the answer has already been synthesized from dozens of sources.

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Features

Knowledge Wiki

Documents are compiled into a persistent, interlinked wiki by an LLM agent - not just indexed. Each page covers a specific entity, concept, or topic. Pages cross-reference each other. The wiki grows smarter as more documents are added.

• Three-panel wiki browser: page tree, content, backlinks & outlinks
• Full-text and semantic search
• Knowledge graph visualization
• Organize by knowledge type (SOP, Product, HR Policy, etc.)
• Version history and rollback for every page
• Draft proposal → editor review → approval workflow

Workspaces

Cross-functional knowledge contexts for projects, clients, or initiatives.

Create a workspace → add members from any department → attach documents. Each workspace has its own scoped wiki, document list, and member roster. Members see their workspace knowledge automatically through Claude.

• Role-based membership: Viewer, Contributor, Editor, Admin
• Scoped wiki and document management
• Contributors propose wiki edits; editors review and approve

AI Skills

Upload custom agent packages and make them available to employees through Claude. Skills are versioned, department-scoped, and distributed via MCP.

MCP Server

Employees connect Claude Desktop (or any MCP client) to Arkon using a personal token. Claude gets access to the compiled wiki, raw source documents, and AI skills - all filtered to the employee's permission scope.

→ See MCP & Claude for the full tool reference.

Access Control

Fine-grained RBAC at department level plus workspace membership roles. Admins define roles with granular permissions; employees inherit access based on department or explicit assignment.

→ See Access Control for the full permission model.

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Quick Start (Docker)

Prerequisites: Docker, Docker Compose, an AI provider API key (Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic).

git clone https://github.com/nduckmink/arkon.git
cd arkon
cp .env.docker.example .env.docker

Edit .env.docker - set at minimum:

SECRET_KEY=<run: python -c "import secrets; print(secrets.token_urlsafe(32))">
DEFAULT_ADMIN_EMAIL=admin@yourcompany.com
DEFAULT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=your-secure-password

docker compose --env-file .env.docker up -d --build

Open http://localhost:3119 and log in with your admin credentials.

Go to Settings → configure your embedding model, LLM, and (optionally) vision model. Then upload your first document from Knowledge Base.

→ See Setup Guide for the full walkthrough including development mode.

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Connecting Claude

Once an employee account is created and an MCP token is generated:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "arkon": {
      "url": "https://your-arkon-server/mcp",
      "headers": {
        "Authorization": "Bearer ark_xxxxxxxxxxxx"
      }
    }
  }
}

Add this to claude_desktop_config.json and restart Claude Desktop. The employee's compiled knowledge is immediately available.

→ See MCP & Claude for the complete setup and tool reference.

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Architecture

Stack: FastAPI · PostgreSQL + pgvector · Redis (arq) · MinIO · Next.js · Tailwind CSS

AI providers (your choice): Google · OpenAI · Anthropic · Ollama · Voyage · Cohere

Outbound network: configured AI provider only. No telemetry, no external calls.

→ See Architecture for the full technical breakdown.

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Roadmap

• LLM Wiki Agent - documents compiled into persistent, interlinked wiki
• Wiki browser - three-panel layout with graph visualization
• MCP Server with scoped knowledge access
• Ingestion pipeline - PDF, DOCX, DOC, URLs, images with vision captions
• Workspaces - scoped wiki, documents, and members
• Wiki draft & revision system - propose, review, approve, rollback
• AI Skills - versioned, department-scoped agent packages
• Full RBAC - department permissions + workspace membership roles
• Audit log
• Regex Search for Human and AI
• Arkon CLI - one-command employee setup
• Notification system for draft review requests
• Usage analytics dashboard

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License

Arkon is licensed under the PolyForm Noncommercial License 1.0.0.

Free to use for internal tooling, research, personal projects, and non-profit use.

Need a commercial license or custom integration? We help organizations integrate Claude, custom AI agents, and MCP servers into their existing infrastructure - from connecting to internal databases and legacy systems to building purpose-built agents for specific business processes.

Get in touch →

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