about
A kitchen for code, on the computer you already have.
A kadhai is the deep, round pan of Indian kitchens, the one everything gets cooked in. Kadhai the program is a whole kitchen around it: a crew that plans, cooks, tastes and fixes, working in a folder you choose.
- Free to run.Free model tiers are enough. Paid keys and subscriptions are yours to bring, labelled as paid and held to a daily token limit.
- Light.Runs on an ordinary laptop, no graphics card needed. One dependency, no build step, no local models.
- Open source.GNU AGPL-3.0. No telemetry: nothing is sent anywhere except the prompts to the providers you add keys for.
- Works offline in the browser.The dashboard loads nothing from other sites: no web fonts, no CDNs, no trackers.
built in the open
Tell us what to cook next.
Kadhai is in beta, and what people report decides what gets fixed and built first.
Post them in Feature Requests and upvote the ones you want most.
Open a bug report, with the details Kadhai's About panel copies for you.
Open for Contribution lists work anyone may pick up. Start with the contributing guide.
Releases and plans are posted in Announcements. Security problems go to private reporting.
works with your tools
An MCP server, an MCP client and an ACP agent.
Claude Desktop, Claude Code or Cursor can hand Kadhai a task; Zed can use the crew in its agent panel; and the cooks can use about fifty connected services while they work.
$ claude mcp add kadhai -- node bin/mcp-server.js
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