theguysudo/ENZO

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Chat with 300+ models. Build agents that write their own operating manuals. Research, generate code, run it all — on your keys, on your infrastructure. When you send a message, the request goes from your browser through ENZO to the provider you picked, and you pay that provider their normal price. Nothing sits in between taking a cut. There is no ENZO account, no usage meter, no subscription.

git clone https://github.com/theguysudo/ENZO.git
cd ENZO
docker compose up -d
# → http://localhost:5001

ENZO is MIT-licensed and free forever. If it saves you time, a star genuinely helps other builders find it.

No clone? One command (mounts the same named volumes, so your data and the claimed instance survive restarts and upgrades):

docker run -d -p 5001:5001 --name enzo \
  -v enzo-projects:/app/generated-projects \
  -v enzo-skills:/app/src/skills/skills \
  -v enzo-memory:/app/data \
  ghcr.io/theguysudo/enzo:latest

That's the whole install. No accounts, no mandatory env, no database server. Open the app, press Login, and pick any provider:

Keys are saved encrypted in your browser (passphrase-protected vault, with a recovery file you can download). You can wipe them anytime from the Vault.

On a fresh self-hosted instance the first live-validated key you paste claims the instance — it's written to the container .env and sealed into the enzo-memory volume, so every server-side feature (agents, skills, memory) unlocks immediately and survives restarts. No master key to configure, no setup wizard — paste a working key and go. (Pre-seed a provider key in compose env instead if you'd rather not have the claim window at all; the threat model states this trade plainly.)

Don't want the local hassle — or want ENZO reachable from any device? The Colab notebook does the whole setup for you: it clones this repo, installs the dependencies, builds the UI and boots the server, then hands you a URL.

1. Click the button — the notebook opens in Colab (a free Google account is enough).
2. Run all cells (Runtime → Run all, or Ctrl/⌘ + F9) — install + build takes ~4–5 min the first time; every cell is idempotent, so a re-run reuses what's already there instead of starting over.
3. Take your URL — the last cell prints two links: a Colab link that works in the browser you're already in, and a Cloudflare tunnel link that works from your phone or any other device (free, no account). The tunnel URL changes each session; the Colab link is bound to your session.

Stays up for the whole session. The notebook arms two disconnect-prevention mechanisms before handing you the URL: a keep-alive that resets Colab's ~90-minute idle timer every 60 seconds while the tab is open, and a watchdog thread that pings the server every 5 minutes and restarts it automatically if it ever dies. Free Colab caps a session at ~12 hours, so a 6-hour run fits comfortably; when a session does end, one click on Run all brings everything back.

1. Pass 1 — analysis. A two-pass drafter reads the domain of your task ("an agent that researches MUN country positions") and derives what the manual needs to cover: tacit knowledge, decision heuristics, edge cases.
2. The race. When a draft needs a model, ~10 free candidates from your own providers fire simultaneously — the first to answer wins, stragglers are aborted, and a brain-health scoreboard reorders future races by which models actually deliver. Dead or rate-limited free-tier models can no longer collapse a draft.
3. Honest provenance. Every agent records which model actually drafted it — and says so plainly when nothing was reachable.
4. It doesn't stop. A per-agent neural layer folds in domain-matched platform activity on a 90-second cadence, distills lessons into memory, and injects a live NEURAL FOCUS block into every run. Watch it in the agent's Neural tab.

Most "AI workspaces" hold your keys, meter your usage, or need a subscription to exist. ENZO is built the other way around:

(Competitor column is about the category, not specific products — details vary.)

Comparing specific alternatives? ENZO sits in the self-hosted, bring-your-own-keys family next to LibreChat (multi-provider chat), AnythingLLM (local RAG workspace), LobeChat (plugin ecosystem) and the Dify / Flowise visual workflow builders. The difference is the agent layer: agents here write their own operating manuals, keep training on your activity, and the whole stack installs as one zero-config container — with nothing between you and the provider taking a cut.

The full threat model is written down — checkable, with the code that makes each claim true — in docs/SECURITY.md. The short version:

• Keys are sealed in your browser with AES-256-GCM under a non-extractable WebCrypto key. It can be used to decrypt your keys while never being copied — no JavaScript can export its bytes, ours or an attacker's. Optional passphrase mode re-seals everything under PBKDF2-SHA256 (600,000 iterations) and deletes the device key entirely.
• One module touches key storage, and CI enforces it. A pipeline stage greps the frontend for any raw localStorage key read and fails the build on a hit — a missed key-access site is a red build, never a production bug.
• Every push runs a 44-assertion black-box pentest against a booted server — auth bypass, hostile payloads, IDOR, stream integrity — plus a keyless-boot proof: the server must start with zero provider keys. That's the BYOK guarantee, tested, not promised.
• The limits are stated up front. Self-hosted mode stores the first key you claim in the container .env (sealed in the memory volume) so scheduled agents can run while your browser is closed — that trade is documented, not hidden. docs/SECURITY.md covers what's protected, what isn't, and why.

An external security & UX audit of the v1.5.0 tree, acted on in full — plus a preview panel that finally behaves like an IDE, not an AI landing page.

• Projects are truly yours. Writing into an existing saved project (save-over, delete, manifest) now requires a valid vault session and the creator's device identity — on a shared instance, a user who knows (or guesses) a project id can no longer overwrite or read another user's work. New project creation stays open; legacy projects keep working and are claimed on first authorized update.
• Generated backends run sandboxed. The server.js ENZO spawns from your prompts now boots under Node's runtime permission model: it can read its own project files and ENZO's node_modules, and nothing else — app secrets, the vault store and other projects return access-denied, and spawning subprocesses is blocked. Boot failures under the sandbox retry once unsandboxed and are logged; ENZO_RUNTIME_PERMISSIONS=0 opts out.
• Save throttling — /api/project/save is rate-limited per IP (60/min), closing the disk-exhaustion path the audit flagged.
• A quiet developer-tool preview — the paper-texture panel (wrinkle filters, drifting smears, sheen sweeps) is gone: a flat surface, a real URL field, icon actions with focus rings and screen-reader labels, a clickable file strip that loads any project file in the frame, reduced-motion support, and a full-width sheet on small screens. The iframe sandbox is untouched.
• Release notices in-app — self-hosters get a small dismissible banner when a newer ENZO release is out (checks GitHub's public API at most once a day; silent when offline).
• The 10-second quickstart bug that could block Linux users is fixed — cd ENZO, matching what git clone actually creates on case-sensitive filesystems.

• In-chat file converter — attach a PDF, spreadsheet, CSV, JSON, TXT or Markdown file in the terminal chat and it's parsed to real text/rows in your browser (files never leave the device; only the reasoning step uses your own key, like normal chat). The agent extracts, merges, or cross-converts — and CSV / Excel download buttons appear right on the reply. Built for research papers: "extract every table and merge into one CSV" now works end to end, and scanned PDFs report their missing text layer instead of failing.
• Run it on Google Colab — one click on the Open In Colab button (see Run on Google Colab): the notebook clones, installs, builds and boots ENZO on Google's hardware, hands you a URL for your browser plus a tunnel URL for your phone, and arms a keep-alive + watchdog so it stays up for 6+ hours.
• Self-healing Docker pulls — the container now verifies its dependencies on every start and installs anything missing before the server boots (ENZO_AUTO_INSTALL=0 to skip). A pulled image can't boot broken.

• Music player — search any song and play it straight from the marketplace, keyless (no YouTube API key, no quota): a collapsed corner pill expands into a full player card — vinyl disc hero, queue walking, shuffle/loop/like, keyboard controls. For You turns your own listening history (kept device-local) into song seeds through your own provider key.
• Real equalizer — a 5-band Web Audio EQ (bass / low-mid / mid / presence / air, ±12 dB, preamp, five presets) that genuinely re-shapes the frequency response when you opt in. Enhance starts off — normal playback is untouched. Tracks the enhancer can't stream fall back to the YouTube engine automatically; playback never breaks.
• Marketplace, redesigned — every model card now carries the platform's own cover art, brand colour on hover, live health dot + latency, and a research panel with real facts: HuggingFace download counts, licences, knowledge cutoffs, Artificial Analysis scores and a Wikipedia-backed family summary — pulled keyless from public endpoints, never guessed.
• NYC Subway theme — the workspace's new flagship backdrop: an AI-animated subway ride through a tunnel, with a handheld-camera tremble, monochrome film grade and animated recording grain added in code (the video ships clean).
• A quieter interface — the whole workspace went monochrome + a single coral accent: the terminal toggle switch rebuilt (was a 385-line component with dead animations), the weather chip moved up beside the catalog header, the nav collapses on scroll and springs back, and the top bar got a cursor-reactive dot grid.
• Previously in v1.2.0: the terminal health ECG, the onboarding stepper, ambient weather, the smoke top bar.
• Full history: docs/CHANGELOG.md.

Requirements: Docker Desktop for Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel). Allocate at least 4 GB RAM in Docker Desktop → Settings → Resources (the model catalog + agents like headroom).

git clone https://github.com/theguysudo/ENZO.git
cd ENZO
docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:5001, press Login, and paste a key from any provider (OpenRouter, Google AI Studio, NVIDIA NIM — all have free tiers; links are in the app). You're in.

Everyday commands

docker compose logs -f          # follow what the server is doing
docker compose restart          # bounce the app, data survives
docker compose pull && docker compose up -d   # upgrade to a new release
docker compose down             # stop (add -v ONLY to wipe all data)

Where your stuff lives: projects, learned skills and agent memory are in named Docker volumes (docker volume ls | grep enzo) — they survive upgrades and down. Your provider keys never touch the server: they're sealed in your browser's vault, and on a fresh install the first key you paste claims the instance for server-side features (scheduled agents).

If the app feels slow on a MacBook: the video themes are GPU-composited; on battery or an older machine, flip the Lite/Full chip (bottom-right) — it swaps video backgrounds for pure shader ones with one click.

Updating: docker compose pull && docker compose up -d. Releases are tagged at github.com/theguysudo/ENZO/releases.

Requirements: Docker Desktop for Windows with WSL 2 (Docker Desktop's installer sets this up; reboot when it asks). Give it ≥ 4 GB RAM in Settings → Resources.

In PowerShell (no clone folder needed — git comes with Docker Desktop's WSL distro, or use Git for Windows):

git clone https://github.com/theguysudo/ENZO.git
cd ENZO
docker compose up -d

Open http://localhost:5001 in your browser, press Login, paste a provider key — done.

Everyday commands

docker compose logs -f          # follow the server log
docker compose restart          # bounce the app
docker compose pull; docker compose up -d   # upgrade to a new release
docker compose down             # stop (add -v ONLY to wipe all data)

Windows notes

• If http://localhost:5001 doesn't load, check Docker Desktop is running (whale icon in the system tray), then docker compose ps — the port is listed there.
• Anti-virus software occasionally slows the first boot (image extraction). The second start is fast.
• Everything else — volumes, keys, the Lite/Full chip — works exactly as on macOS.

git clone https://github.com/theguysudo/ENZO.git
cd ENZO && docker compose up -d   # → http://localhost:5001

• Live terminal health ECG — the static ONLINE label is now a heart-monitor trace sweeping the terminal toolbar; reachable catalog keeps it beating, anything else freezes a red flatline.
• Onboarding, rebuilt — an animated stepper walks the three connect-provider steps (numbers morph into checkmarks, completed steps are click-back-navigable), with a liquid save switch that ticks when your key lands.
• Ambient weather card in the marketplace sidebar — one keyless IP geolocation + Open-Meteo, cached 30 minutes, degrading quietly.
• Smoke behind the glass — the top bar carries a slow violet/cyan drift (WebGL fbm, low-power context) and a ~20% slimmer silhouette.
• Previously in v1.1.0: the custom agent builder, race drafting, the neural layer, and ~20 hardening fixes.
• Full history: docs/CHANGELOG.md.

Every push to main runs the full pipeline in .github/workflows/ci.yml — 7 stages:

1. Security checks — no key literals in tracked files, .env never committed, keys never read from raw localStorage, no onboarding bypasses
2. Backend — strict TypeScript, every imported file tracked, unit tests (298 assertions across agent, vault, crypto and model suites)
3. Dependency audits — backend + frontend, fail on any high/critical vulnerability
4. Black-box security pentest — 44 live assertions against a booted server: auth bypass, hostile payloads, IDOR, stream integrity
5. Keyless boot proof — the server must boot with zero provider keys
6. Frontend — strict TS + production build with an enforced gzipped bundle budget
7. Repo hygiene — no large binaries, changelog and agent docs present

Both animate by default — the lite themes are GPU shaders, not static images. To get every theme:

ENZO_IMAGE=ghcr.io/theguysudo/enzo:full docker compose up -d

Everything you make lives in Docker named volumes, safe across upgrades:

• enzo-projects — generated coding projects
• enzo-skills — skills the agent learned from GitHub repos
• enzo-memory — the agent's durable notes about your work

Your provider keys are not in the volumes — they're browser-side (encrypted at rest with your passphrase).

Everything works with zero environment variables. A few features want server-side values — put them in a .env next to docker-compose.yml:

# Extra origins allowed to call the API (comma-separated)
ENZO_CORS_ORIGINS=https://enzo.example.com

# "Connect with Cloudflare" OAuth button (optional — pasting a token works too)
CLOUDFLARE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID=...
CLOUDFLARE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET=...

# HuggingFace OAuth app for the HF onboarding step (optional — token paste works)
VITE_HF_CLIENT_ID=...
HF_CLIENT_SECRET=...

VITE_HF_CLIENT_ID only takes effect when building the image from source (it's baked into the frontend at build time).

docker build -t enzo:mine --build-arg THEME_VARIANT=full .

This image is generated from the same codebase that runs https://enzo-hub.duckdns.org, with exactly two feature differences:

1. No Google sign-in. The hosted site offers Google OAuth as a convenience; here, login is setting your provider keys. Everything else — providers, research, coding agent, vault, memory, skills — is identical.
2. Default themes (lite image). The first homepage and workspace themes run as pure WebGL/three.js so the image stays small. The full image has the complete set.

• GitHub Trending (LLM topic), Sep 9–10 2026 — #17 on Sep 9 → #19 on Sep 10. Evidence: the per-topic trending archive (the two CSV rows) · an independent digest's ranked trending table — #9, Sep 8–9
• The Daily Diff — "ENZO brings self-hosted AI workspace with agents and BYOK" (Sep 19, 2026)
• OpenAlternative — listed as an open-source, self-hosted alternative
• agentspace.cc · followagents.com — agent directory listings
• The Lavx News — "Self-hosted AI workspace: ENZO runs 300+ models on your own keys, with no middleman"
• Revesery — a community setup guide
• Daniel Kornas on LinkedIn and X — "Your AI workspace doesn't need to sit between you and your model provider"
• ncybersec and elbonay.duredeyef on Facebook
• Curated lists that merged the addition: awesome-opensource-ai · Awesome-AI-Agents · awesome-ai-web-search · awesome-gpt

Apache-2.0 — see LICENSE.

One command. Your keys. No middleman.
docker compose up -d → http://localhost:5001 · or try it live at enzo-hub.duckdns.org

_{If ENZO saves you a middleman, a ⭐ helps other people find it.}