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

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.

Problem

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

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.

Features

Knowledge Wiki

Documents are compiled into a persistent, interlinked wiki — not just indexed. The MRP pipeline (MAP → REDUCE → PLAN → REFINE → VERIFY) reads every section of every document, traces every claim back to its source, and lets an editor review the compilation plan before any pages are written. 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.

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))">
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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.

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.

Architecture

Arkon System Design

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.

Roadmap

MRP Pipeline - deterministic MAP→REDUCE→PLAN→REFINE→VERIFY compilation with full document coverage, traceable citations, and human plan review
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
Arkon CLI - one-command employee setup
Notification system for draft review requests
Usage analytics dashboard

License

Arkon is licensed under the PolyForm Internal Use License 1.0.0.

Free to use for your organization's internal business operations. You may not offer Arkon as a service to third parties.

Need a custom integration or enterprise support? 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.

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