Gitmost

Open-source collaborative wiki and documentation software.
A fully-open community fork of Docmost.

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About this fork

Gitmost is a community fork of Docmost, an open-source collaborative wiki and documentation app.

The goal of the fork is a 100% open, AGPL-only build with no Enterprise-Edition (EE) code:

• No EE code at all. All proprietary Enterprise-Edition sources were removed — the private apps/server/src/ee submodule, the apps/client/src/ee directory (201 files) and the packages/ee package are gone. There is no license gating: every feature is available to everyone.
• Replacements are written from scratch. Features that previously lived behind the enterprise license (e.g. comment resolution, the AI agent chat, the /mcp server) were re-implemented from scratch on top of the community codebase. No EE code is reused, and there is no entitlement/feature-flag wall.
• No upsell. There are no "buy a license" / "upgrade to Enterprise" banners, trial nags, or locked-feature placeholders anywhere in the UI.
• Authentication is plain email + password (no SSO/LDAP/cloud/billing flows).

What's different from Docmost

Change	Details
EE code removed	Stripped all client and server Enterprise-Edition code; ships as a clean community/AGPL build with no license checks.
Comment resolution	Re-implemented from scratch as a community feature (resolve / re-open with Open/Resolved tabs). No EE code reused, available to anyone who can comment.
Embedded MCP server	A community MCP server (@docmost/mcp, 39 tools) is served over HTTP at /mcp — no enterprise license required. Replaces the removed license-gated EE MCP.
AI agent chat	Built-in AI agent chat over your wiki, written from scratch as a community feature — no enterprise license. The agent reads and edits pages on your behalf (scoped to your permissions), with full-text + vector (RAG) search and optional web access via external MCP servers.
Rebranding	App logo / name changed from Docmost to Gitmost.
Compact page tree	Default page-tree indentation reduced from 16px to 8px per nesting level.
Persistent page-tree state	The sidebar page tree remembers which nodes you expanded/collapsed across reloads — saved in the browser (localStorage), scoped per workspace + user so accounts sharing a browser don't clash. Upstream Docmost forgets the tree on every reload.
CI / images	Release CI publishes container images to GHCR (ghcr.io/vvzvlad/gitmost) using the built-in GITHUB_TOKEN instead of Docker Hub.

Embedded MCP server

Gitmost has our own MCP server — docmost-mcp, which we wrote — built directly into the app and served at /mcp. It exposes 39 agent-native tools: surgical per-block edits (patch / insert / delete by id), structure-preserving find/replace, scripted (doc) => doc transforms with a dry-run diff, structured table editing, version history with diff / restore, comments, images and share links — all applied through Docmost's real-time-collaboration layer, so a write never clobbers a concurrent human edit.

Better than Docmost's own MCP. Docmost's built-in MCP is an enterprise feature, and its tools are coarse — read a page as Markdown, create / move / delete pages, replace a whole page. Ours is built around how an agent actually edits: address one block and patch it, or program the change, instead of round-tripping a ~100 KB document through the model on every little fix. And it needs no enterprise license.

	Gitmost /mcp (our docmost-mcp)	Docmost's built-in MCP
Enterprise license	Not required	Required
Tools	39, agent-native	Coarse (read Markdown, page CRUD, replace whole page)
Per-block edits / find-replace / scripted transforms	✅	—
Structured table editing, version diff / restore	✅	—
Comments, images, share links	✅	—
Safe real-time-collab writes (no clobber)	✅	—

Same server as standalone docmost-mcp — just bundled. This is the exact docmost-mcp you can also run on its own; embedding it doesn't make it more capable, you simply don't have to install and run a separate process. An admin flips one toggle in Workspace settings → AI and any MCP client points at ${APP_URL}/mcp.

AI agent chat

Gitmost ships a built-in AI agent chat over your wiki — written from scratch as a community feature, with no enterprise license. Open it from the page header; the agent can read and edit your workspace on your behalf:

• Full read + write toolset (~40 tools). Search and read pages, make surgical per-block and table edits, create / rename / move pages, diff and restore page history, and create / resolve comments — every action runs under your permissions (Docmost CASL), so the agent can never see or change anything you couldn't.
• Safe by design. The agent is given only reversible operations (page history + trash); permanent deletion is never exposed. Agent edits are marked in page history with an "AI agent" badge linking back to the chat.
• Search over your content. Full-text search plus optional vector (RAG) semantic search across pages.
• Web access via external MCP. Admins can connect external MCP servers (e.g. Tavily) to give the agent web search / internet access.
• Bring your own model. Configure an OpenAI-compatible endpoint — OpenAI, OpenRouter, a local Ollama, or any self-hosted server — plus the model and API key in Workspace settings → AI. The key is encrypted and never leaves the server.

Roadmap

Done

• ✅ MCP server — embedded community MCP server served at /mcp.
• ✅ macOS app — native macOS app (gitmost-app) that embeds the UI with multi-server tabs.
• ✅ AI chat — built-in AI agent chat over your wiki content (read + write, RAG search, configurable provider, optional web access via external MCP).
• ✅ Voice dictation — microphone button in the AI agent chat and the page editor; audio is transcribed server-side (Whisper / OpenAI-compatible STT) via the workspace AI provider, with an admin toggle to show/hide it.
• ✅ Page templates — flag a page as a template and embed its whole content live into other pages; edits to the template propagate to every place it is inserted (whole-page transclusion on top of the existing synced blocks).
• ✅ Public-share AI assistant — anonymous visitors of a shared page can ask the AI agent, scoped strictly to that share's page tree (read-only, share-scoped search), behind a workspace toggle.
• ✅ Footnotes — academic-style footnotes: a numbered superscript reference inline (read it in place via a hover popover), with the note text living as a real, editable block at the bottom of the page; auto-numbered, collaboration-safe, and round-trips through Markdown export/import and the AI agent / MCP.
• ✅ Temporary notes — mark a note as temporary and it auto-moves to Trash after a configurable per-workspace lifetime (default 24h) unless made permanent first; create one in a click from the Home screen, any space overview, or the space sidebar, with a "Make permanent" rescue banner on the open note.

In progress

• 🚧 Git synchronization — two-way sync of pages with a Git repository.

Planned

• 🔭 Viewer comments — let read-only viewers leave comments.
• 🔭 Password-protected pages — protect individual pages / shares with a password.
• 🔭 Windows / Linux app — native desktop app for Windows and Linux.
• 🔭 Mobile app — mobile apps (iOS first, Android to follow), reusing the existing responsive web UI and editor via a Capacitor wrapper, with offline planned for later. See issue #195.
• 🔭 Offline mode — offline sync & PWA support.
• 🔭 Editor & UX improvements — blocks inside tables (lists, to-do items), column layout, additional heading levels, highlight blocks, custom emoji in callouts, floating images, anchor links for page mentions, toggles (shared-page width, aside/sidebar, spellcheck, ligatures), sanitized space-tree export, and mentions in breadcrumbs.

Getting started

Gitmost follows the upstream Docmost setup. See the Docmost documentation for self-hosting and development instructions; replace the docmost/docmost image with ghcr.io/vvzvlad/gitmost where applicable.

Migration from Docmost

Gitmost's database schema is a strict superset of Docmost's. Every Gitmost-specific migration only adds new tables (page_embeddings, ai_chats, ai_chat_messages, ai_provider_credentials, ai_mcp_servers) and nullable columns — it never drops or rewrites existing Docmost data. Migrations run automatically on startup, so migrating an existing Docmost instance is essentially two image swaps.

The only hard requirement is the database image: the AI agent's RAG storage needs the pgvector extension (CREATE EXTENSION vector), which the stock postgres image does not ship. Swap it for pgvector/pgvector:pgNN — the same vanilla Postgres plus pgvector bundled, built on the official postgres image and fully data-compatible with it.

From a current Docmost on Postgres 18

If your Docmost already runs postgres:18, it's a clean in-place swap — no dump/restore needed, the existing data directory is reused as-is:

 services:
   docmost:
-    image: docmost/docmost:latest
+    image: ghcr.io/vvzvlad/gitmost:latest
     ...
   db:
-    image: postgres:18
+    image: pgvector/pgvector:pg18

APP_SECRET, DATABASE_URL, REDIS_URL and the storage volume stay unchanged. On the first start the new migrations apply on top of your existing schema (CREATE EXTENSION vector plus the page_embeddings and AI tables); watch the logs for Migration "..." executed successfully.

⚠️ Never change APP_SECRET after setup. It does double duty: it signs JWTs and derives the AES-256-GCM key that encrypts stored AI-provider credentials (API keys). Rotating it makes every saved AI API key undecryptable (you'd have to re-enter them in AI settings) and invalidates all existing sessions. Pick it once, keep it stable, and back it up together with your database.

Notes

• Back up first. Take a pg_dump before swapping — migrations apply in place, and the container exits if a migration fails.
• Volume layout is identical. pgvector/pgvector is built on the official postgres image and uses the same PGDATA, so keep your existing data volume and its mount path unchanged — the swap reuses the directory as-is.
• Match the Postgres major. A Postgres data directory is not compatible across major versions. If your Docmost runs an older major (e.g. Postgres 16), use the matching pgvector/pgvector:pg16 to keep the in-place swap, or move the data with pg_dump / pg_restore into the new instance.
• Managed Postgres. If you don't use the bundled db container, make sure pgvector is available and your database role is allowed to run CREATE EXTENSION vector.
• AI is opt-in. The page_embeddings table stays empty until you configure an AI provider; existing pages are indexed on their next edit. pgvector is still required for the migration to apply at all.

Features

• Real-time collaboration
• Diagrams (Draw.io, Excalidraw and Mermaid)
• Spaces
• Permissions management
• Groups
• Comments (with resolve / re-open)
• Page history
• Search
• File attachments
• Embeds (Airtable, Loom, Miro and more)
• Translations (10+ languages)
• Embedded MCP server (/mcp)
• AI agent chat over your wiki (read + write, RAG search, external MCP / web access)

Screenshots

License

Gitmost is licensed under the open-source AGPL 3.0 license.

Unlike upstream Docmost, this fork contains no Enterprise-Edition code — the apps/server/src/ee, apps/client/src/ee and packages/ee directories have been removed, so there are no files governed by an enterprise license.

Credits

Gitmost is based on Docmost by the Docmost team. Huge thanks to them for the original open-source project.

Crowdin for providing access to their localization platform.

Algolia for providing full-text search to the docs.