HugAgentOS vs MaxKB
ZJU's self-hosted enterprise AgentOS on AgentScope 2.0: domain ontology as a control plane for agents, plus RAG, sub-agents, MCP, skills, sandbox, memory and approval-gated self-evolution. — versus — Open-source enterprise agent platform: RAG pipelines (upload or crawl docs), a visual workflow engine with MCP tool-use, and zero-code embedding into existing business systems.
Both are self-hosted enterprise agent platforms with RAG, workflow and MCP tools; HugAgentOS adds ontology governance and audited self-evolution, maxkb has the larger install base.
| HugAgentOS | MaxKB | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 1.1k | 23k |
| Forks | 63 | 3.2k |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | NOASSERTION | GPL-3.0 |
| Last activity | yesterday | 2 days ago |
| Topics | agents, knowledge-graphs, orchestration | agents, rag |
| Curated connections | 5 | 6 |
HugAgentOS — the curator's take
Pick HugAgentOS when the pitch 'ontology as a machine-executable control plane' matters to you - governed concepts, relations, rules and action contracts feed the skill, memory and orchestration engines one shared business vocabulary, and self-evolution (memory, skills, orchestration) only lands after you approve it. One-command install with SQLite, Docker Compose for Postgres/Redis and a real sandbox. Caveats: the repo is a generated mirror of an upstream (`src/**` PRs not accepted), the licence is Apache-2.0 *plus* supplementary terms, and the Community Edition has no self-registration. If you don't care about ontology governance, maxkb or claraverse are more mature self-hosted workspaces; if you only want the ontology layer, context-ontology-accelerator or semantica are lighter.
MaxKB — the curator's take
The self-hosted answer to 'we need an internal AI assistant this quarter': upload or crawl your docs, get a RAG-grounded Q&A agent with a real workflow engine and MCP tool-use, then embed it into existing systems without code. Model-agnostic including fully private deployments. Battle-tested at 22k stars, mostly in enterprise support/knowledge-base roles. NOT a developer framework — you orchestrate in its UI, not your codebase (LangGraph territory); GPL-3.0 matters if you redistribute; and the project's center of gravity is the Chinese enterprise ecosystem — English docs and community trail the code.