The Agent-Native workspace. Local .md files as the absolute source of truth.
Born on April 24, 2026.
Mada is an open-source, local-first Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) engine and collaborative outliner. It is built on the philosophy that your data should never be held hostage in a proprietary SaaS database.
In the era of autonomous AI agents and "Idea Files", agents need a true home. Mada provides this by treating pure local .md files as the absolute source of truth, while a high-performance SQLite/Rust backend acts as a seamless mirror for block-based editing and collaborative multiplayer.
- File-First: Your vault is just a folder of Markdown files.
- Agent-Native: External AI scripts can edit your files simultaneously without causing conflict copies, powered by local CRDTs.
- Lightning Fast: Built with Tauri v2 and Rust.
- Core Specification — Single source of truth for all development
- Versioning System — Senator Versioning (5-digit semantic versioning)
- Roadmap — Milestone 0 phases and exit criteria
- Semantic Registry — Agent-readable context and constraints
Maintained by the architects at Senator Labs.