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Utopia

Utopia — an open-source enterprise world model: a bitemporal knowledge substrate that learns from your documents and gives agents a governed, auditable memory

★ 8.4k stars⑂ 1.2k forksApache-2.0updated 2026-10
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// project facts

Project facts

Utopia is an open-source rag & knowledge project by deeplethe (deeplethe/utopia on GitHub). It has 8,372 GitHub stars and 1,159 forks, is released under the Apache-2.0 license, and was last updated on GitHub on 15 October 2026.

GitHub stars
8,372
Forks
1,159
License
Apache-2.0
Last updated on GitHub
15 October 2026
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// how it works

How it works

  1. Start the prebuilt image

    Clone the repo and bring the stack up with Docker Compose — the first account you register becomes the administrator.

  2. Configure model endpoints

    Under Administration → Models, set the chat and embedding endpoints Utopia should use.

  3. Feed it knowledge

    Start extracting business documents into the public knowledge base and watch the ontology evolve with time awareness.

// features

Why people love it

Bitemporal by design

Knowledge carries both valid time and record time, so past states of understanding can be replayed and audited.

Ontology in the base layer

Conflict detection, reasoning and decision support run against a governed ontology, not raw chunks.

Offline and self-hosted

Prebuilt images for x86-64 and ARM64 (Apple Silicon, Graviton) run entirely on hardware you control.

An execution gate is coming

The roadmap adds checking agent calls against ontology rules and symbolic logic, plus agent memory over MCP.

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// run it

Run it yourself

  1. Clone the repository

    Requirements: Docker; local development also needs Rust 1.85+, Node 20+ and pnpm.

    git clone https://github.com/deeplethe/utopia.git
    cd utopia
  2. Start from the prebuilt image

    Brings up the app profile; then open http://localhost:1516 and register.

    docker compose --profile app up -d
  3. Or build from source

    Uses the build overlay of the same Compose stack.

    docker compose -f docker-compose.yml -f docker-compose.build.yml --profile app up -d --build
// use cases

What you can build

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// faq

Questions, answered

Who maintains Utopia?

DeepLethe; the project site is utopia.bi.

Is it free?

Yes, Apache-2.0 licensed, with prebuilt container images on GHCR.

Does it need a paid API key?

You configure your own chat and embedding model endpoints; Utopia itself has no licence fee.

How does it compare to a well-known alternative?

A vector store retrieves similar chunks of present knowledge. Utopia models knowledge bitemporally over an ontology, so it can show what was believed, when it changed, and what a decision rested on.

How do I get started?

Clone the repo, run docker compose --profile app up -d, open http://localhost:1516, register the admin account, and configure your model endpoints.

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