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Cinatra Documentation

Cinatra is the open source AI workspace for teams, built on open AI standards — a workspace where people, AI assistants, and autonomous agents work together on durable workflows.


Run your first agent with the Quickstart, or read Why Cinatra for what the platform unlocks.


  • User — running agents, chat, human-in-the-loop (HITL) review, dashboards, skills, cross-instance collaboration
  • Admin — the /configuration/* area: marketplace, extensions, permissions, providers, telemetry, instance settings
  • Developer — authoring agents and extensions, the contributor workflow, and the day-to-day developer loop
  • Hosting — installation, configuration, troubleshooting; what an operator needs to know
  • Platform — architecture, subsystem contracts, the objects layer, security, connectors, artifacts, workflows, open standards, and CI policy
  • MCP — the Model Context Protocol server (external + internal), authentication, primitives, and clients
  • Design — the Cinatra design system: the normative spec, the design skill, and the operational rulebook
  • Glossary — canonical concepts and terminology
  • Why Cinatra — what the platform unlocks
  • Comparisons — Cinatra vs ChatGPT Workspace Agents, Claude Cowork, Vercel Open Agents, and Managed Agents