An MCP Butler for Your AI, Complete with a Non-Compete
It builds a portable, isolated home for AI agents so they don't lose their memory, keys, or automations when you switch MCP hosts.

What it does
Kody is a personal-assistant platform that runs on Cloudflare Workers. It gives each signed-in user a fully isolated environment—packages, jobs, secrets, and memories—and exposes them to AI agents through OAuth-protected MCP endpoints. A Remix 3 beta UI sits on top, while the back end splits duties across origin, platform, runtime, and jobs workers.
The interesting bit
Instead of drowning agents in a massive tool catalog, Kody keeps the MCP surface tight and leans on powerful search and Code Mode execute flows. The whole thing is wired together through Cloudflare’s native stack—D1, KV, Durable Objects, and Queues—which means state and compute stay co-located at the edge. The project is also “Fair Source” (FSL-1.1): free to use and modify unless you’re building a direct competitor, at which point you wait two years for the Apache 2.0 release.
Key highlights
- Portable across MCP hosts; ChatGPT is the primary target, but the server aims to stay usable elsewhere.
- Multi-tenant by default: every user gets their own sandboxed assistant state.
- Architecture is split into specialized Workers (origin, platform, runtime, jobs) rather than one monolithic function.
- Built entirely on Cloudflare primitives: Workers, D1, KV, Durable Objects, and esbuild for bundling.
- Community packages remain MIT-licensed even though the core platform sits under a Fair Source license.
Caveats
- Remix 3 is still in beta, so the UI layer is riding the bleeding edge (or at least the bruising edge).
- The Fair Source license carries a “Competing Use” restriction; if you plan to commercialize something similar, read the fine print.
- The project explicitly bills itself as a personal assistant platform, not a general-purpose agent harness, so expect opinions.
Verdict
Developers who want a hosted, multi-user AI assistant with persistent memory and an edge-native stack should look here. If you need a generic, license-unencumbered agent framework or you’re allergic to Cloudflare lock-in, this isn’t your stack.
Frequently asked
- What is kentcdodds/kody?
- It builds a portable, isolated home for AI agents so they don't lose their memory, keys, or automations when you switch MCP hosts.
- Is kody open source?
- Yes — kentcdodds/kody is an open-source project tracked on heatdrop.
- What language is kody written in?
- kentcdodds/kody is primarily written in TypeScript.
- How popular is kody?
- kentcdodds/kody has 605 stars on GitHub and is currently accelerating.
- Where can I find kody?
- kentcdodds/kody is on GitHub at https://github.com/kentcdodds/kody.