# Overview (https://openknowledge.ai/docs/get-started/overview)

Beautiful, AI-native markdown editor for humans and agents. Build knowledge bases, LLM wikis, and agent 2nd brains.

OpenKnowledge is an IDE for co-creating markdown-based knowledge bases and documents with the agents you already use.

Claude, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Pi, OpenClaw, Antigravity

Available as a [desktop app](https://openknowledge.ai/download) for macOS, Windows, and Linux — or as a local web app and CLI (any platform, including Intel Macs).

## Three layers

OpenKnowledge is three layers working together: a WYSIWYG editor for you, MCP and skills for agents, and your markdown files underneath.

1. **WYSIWYG Editor** — Your Interface. A beautiful "what you see is what you get" editor for your markdown files. Supports interactive HTML and JS, Mermaid diagrams, LaTeX, Videos, PDFs, and more.
2. **MCP and Skills** — Agent toolkit. Tools for agents to help search, edit, expand, organize, and maintain your knowledge base.
3. **Markdown Content** — Source of truth. Your knowledge base stays as plain markdown or mdx files in your project, version-controlled in git.

## Additional Features

- **[Ask AI](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/editor#ask-ai)** experience: chat with your agent **in app** without leaving OpenKnowledge, or hand the work to an external agent app or the built-in **[TUI](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/editor#terminal)** in the desktop app.
- Annotate your knowledge base with **[comments](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/comments)**, then resolve them with AI.
- **[Auto-sync](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/features/github-sync)** knowledge base changes with your team using Git.
- Explore your knowledge base through **[graph and wiki-link visualizations](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/reference/core-concepts#links-and-backlinks)**.
- [Connect to OpenKnowledge](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/remote-control/connecting-agents) remotely from local agents, remote agents, or other devices.

## Where to start

1. [Try the Quickstart](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/get-started/quickstart) — Install the desktop app and get your first agent-driven edit in under five minutes.
2. [Setting up an editor?](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/integrations/claude-code) — Use with Claude, Cursor, Codex, OpenCode, OpenClaw, Pi, or Antigravity.
3. [Set up an LLM Wiki](https://openknowledge.ai/docs/workflows/karpathy-llm-wiki) — Build a Karpathy-style LLM Wiki