The AI-native workspace for legal and document-heavy work.
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VS Code gives developers one place for files, extensions, terminals, Git, and AI coding assistants.
AI Workdeck aims to give lawyers and document-heavy teams one place for matters, documents, agents, plugins, evidence, and review.
Star AI Workdeck if you care about any of these problems:
- Building AI-native legal or professional-service workflows
- Moving from chatbot add-ons to a real workspace where files, context, agents, and plugins live together
- Self-hosting document AI infrastructure with private data, audit trails, and organization-level workflows
- Exploring MCP-style agent orchestration, document parsing, WPS WebOffice integration, AI slides, TTS, OCR, and evidence-chain workflows in one codebase
AI Workdeck Community Edition is the open-source kernel of AI Workdeck. It is not the full commercial SaaS product. The kernel is published so developers, law firms, legal-tech builders, and document-AI teams can inspect, self-host, integrate, and extend the core workflow infrastructure.
| Website | aiworkdeck.com |
| Product walkthrough | Intro video |
| Feature showcase | AI Workdeck Showcase |
| Area | What the kernel provides |
|---|---|
| Workspace | Project/file tree, document staging, favorites, clipboard memory, work logs |
| AI document work | Drafting, review, extraction, desensitization, Markdown and document preview |
| Agent layer | Main agent interface, streaming responses, contextual file tags, MCP-oriented orchestration |
| Document editing | WPS WebOffice integration, online DOCX/XLSX editing, document links, diff viewing |
| Parsing and generation | MinerU document parsing, AI PPT generation, text-to-speech workflows |
| Plugin surface | Left-sidebar plugins, tool configuration, dedicated panes for vertical workflows |
| Deployment | Java/Spring backend, Vue/uni-app frontend, Electron desktop shell, Dockerized services |
| Governance | Private deployment path, audit-friendly workflow records, commercial licensing path |
flowchart TB
User["User workspace"] --> IDE["IDE interaction layer"]
IDE --> WPS["WPS WebOffice integration"]
IDE --> Agent["Agent and chat interface"]
Agent --> MCP["MCP / tool orchestration"]
MCP --> Skills["Document skills and plugins"]
Skills --> Data["PostgreSQL, object storage, file context"]
Skills --> Services["MinerU, PPTX service, TTS, OCR"]
Data --> Security["Private deployment and audit controls"]
Services --> Security
| Requirement | Version |
|---|---|
| Docker Desktop | Latest (for MinerU, PPTX, TTS services) |
| Java | 17+ (JDK 21 also supported) |
| Node.js | 18+ |
| PostgreSQL | 14+ |
# 1. Clone
git clone https://github.com/zeweihan/aiworkdeck.git
cd aiworkdeck
# 2. Configure environment
cp backend/.env.example backend/.env.production
cp pptx-service/.env.example pptx-service/.env
# 3. Create database
# Create a PostgreSQL database named `checkba`
# or update backend environment variables for your own database name
# 4. Start all services
chmod +x restart-all.sh
./restart-all.sh| Service | URL |
|---|---|
| Frontend | http://localhost:5173 |
| Backend | http://localhost:9696 |
| PPTX service | http://localhost:5001 |
| MinerU service | http://localhost:8001 |
| EasyVoice | http://localhost:9549 |
Common optional providers: OpenRouter, Gemini, Qichacha, Tushare, ElevenLabs, PKULaw, WPS WebOffice, and object storage. Not every provider is required to inspect the code or run the basic workbench.
| Path | Purpose |
|---|---|
backend/ |
Spring Boot backend, agent/tool APIs, document services |
frontend/ |
Vue/uni-app web frontend for the workbench |
desktop/ |
Electron desktop shell |
pptx-service/ |
AI-native PPT generation service |
mineru-service/ |
MinerU-based document parsing service |
easyvoice/ |
Text-to-speech service |
docs/ |
Engineering notes, WPS integration notes, storage and workflow docs |
legal/ |
AGPLv3 license, CLA, commercial license, trademark terms |
- Cleaner one-command local demo with sample data
- Public plugin SDK and example plugins
- More legal-document workflows: due diligence, shareholder meeting review, contract review, evidence timelines
- Better self-hosting guides for private law-firm and enterprise deployments
- More auditable work records: version history, diff, citations, and review logs
- Bilingual documentation for the community edition
We welcome issues, discussions, docs improvements, integration notes, and focused pull requests. Please read CONTRIBUTING.md before submitting a PR.
Useful first contributions:
- Reproduce and document local setup paths on different operating systems
- Improve self-hosting docs and
.envexamples - Add plugin examples
- Add tests around document parsing, agent tool calls, and frontend workflows
- Improve English and Chinese documentation
AI Workdeck Community Edition is released under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0.
If you modify this project and provide it as a network service, AGPLv3 generally requires that you provide the corresponding source code to users of that service.
Commercial licensing is available for:
- Closed-source SaaS delivery
- Proprietary on-premise delivery
- Commercial products that need to integrate the kernel without releasing proprietary modifications
- Dedicated enterprise support and implementation assistance
See LICENSE and COMMERCIAL-LICENSE.md. For commercial licensing, contact hi@aiworkdeck.com.
Read WHY.md for the product thesis and founder story.
If this direction matters to you, please ⭐ star the repo and share it with someone building legal AI, document AI, or professional-service infrastructure.