Install with your AI

Let your agent install Kvendra

Kvendra ships a machine-readable install guide following the llms.txt convention. It contains the whole setup — Platform up, embeddings, MCP wiring, Skills, and the optional CLI — condensed into unambiguous, copy-paste steps, in order, with a verification after each one. An agent can read it and run the setup end-to-end.

Point your Claude Code at the guide and ask:

Read https://kvendra.dev/llms.txt and install and configure Kvendra for me.

You can also read it yourself: kvendra.dev/llms.txt.

What the agent will do

The guide is platform-first, so the agent starts with the one required piece — the self-hosted knowledge base — and layers the rest on top:

  1. Bring up the Platform. Clone the preconfigured reference stack (or kvendra-platform alone), start it with Docker Compose, and confirm the health check on port 7777. The guide is explicit about reading the auth token the right way for each path.
  2. Choose embeddings. Run Ollama as a container for pure self-hosting (recommended, nothing leaves your infrastructure), or use the shipped hosted free-tier default, or a mock provider for CI.
  3. Connect Claude Code over MCP. Register the Platform as an MCP server so the agent gains the 14 knowledge-base tools — the agent wires it directly, or the /setup skill does the same step interactively.
  4. Install the Skills. Add the Claude Code plugin — it ships the /setup onboarding wizard that can do the whole MCP wiring for you — then verify with /env-check.
  5. Optionally add the CLI broker. A zero-knowledge vault and capability broker for brokered operations — optional and pre-alpha.

Honest about where this is

The Platform and Skills are the parts you run today. The CLI broker is optional and pre-alpha — Skills and the Platform work without it, and the guide marks it clearly so your agent does not treat it as required. Everything the guide references is open-core: the Platform is AGPL, the CLI and Skills are Apache-2.0, and the reference stack is MIT.

Prefer to follow along by hand? The same steps live in the Quickstart.