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Introduction to Workjet

Workjet is the open-source AI workbench for information workers. It gives every team a single, governed workspace for AI — chat, automate, build skills — all routed through your company's own AI gateway. No scattered SaaS subscriptions, no data leaking to third-party servers, no shadow AI.

Why Workjet?

Most organizations struggle with AI adoption. Individual team members sign up for different AI tools, paste sensitive data into public chatbots, and IT has zero visibility. Workjet solves this by providing a single desktop application that routes every AI request through a centrally-managed gateway, giving your organization complete control over models, costs, data loss prevention, and audit logging.

Key Concepts

Chat

Interactive, conversational AI docked at the bottom of every tab. Drag documents onto the chat panel to discuss their contents. Switch models mid-conversation. Every message flows through the gateway for DLP scanning, cost tracking, and audit logging.

Assistants

Persistent background agents that monitor events, respond to triggers, and complete tasks without manual prompting. Draft customer emails, triage support tickets, answer Slack questions — all running autonomously. Learn more in the Assistants guide.

Engines

Cron-style scheduled automations. Generate weekly pipeline reports every Monday, scan documentation for accuracy daily, digest feature requests every morning. See the Engines guide for details.

Skills

Reusable prompt-and-tool chains that your team publishes and shares. A skill bundles a system prompt, model preference, required tools, and example inputs into a one-click workflow anyone on the team can run. Browse the Marketplace to discover community skills or create your own.

Tools (MCP Connectors)

Connect Workjet to every tool your team uses via the Model Context Protocol. Fourteen first-class connectors are available out of the box — GitHub, Slack, Google Drive, PostgreSQL, and more — with a guided connection wizard for each.

Gateway

The single chokepoint through which every AI request flows. The gateway provides model routing, data loss prevention, audit logging, cost controls, and rate limiting — giving IT and compliance teams complete visibility over how AI is used across the organization.

Architecture Overview

Workjet follows a three-zone architecture: the device (desktop app), the gateway (Cloudflare edge), and the AI providers. 


  +-------------------+        +-------------------------+        +------------------+
  |   Desktop App     |        |      AI Gateway         |        |   AI Providers   |
  |   (Tauri + React) | -----> |   (Cloudflare Workers)  | -----> |  Anthropic       |
  |                   |        |                         |        |  OpenAI          |
  |  - Chat UI        |        |  - Model Routing        |        |  Google          |
  |  - Assistants     |        |  - DLP Scanning         |        |  Ollama          |
  |  - Engines        |        |  - Audit Logging        |        |                  |
  |  - Skills         |        |  - Cost Controls        |        +------------------+
  |  - MCP Tools      |        |  - Rate Limiting        |
  +-------------------+        +-------------------------+
                                        |
                               +--------+--------+
                               |                  |
                        +------+------+    +------+------+
                        |   Portal    |    | Marketplace |
                        | (Web Admin) |    |  (Skills)   |
                        +-------------+    +-------------+
Layer Technology Purpose
Desktop Tauri 2 + React 19 Cross-platform native app
Frontend TypeScript + Tailwind CSS Type-safe, utility-first styling
State Zustand Lightweight state management
API Cloudflare Workers + Hono Serverless edge compute
Database Cloudflare D1 (SQLite) Auth, config, metadata
Business DB PlanetScale (MySQL) via Hyperdrive Scalable business data
Storage Cloudflare R2 Documents, artifacts, skills, audit
Cache Cloudflare KV Sessions, rate limits, config cache
Auth Custom OAuth2 + sessions Google SSO, API keys, cookie sessions
AI Gateway Cloudflare AI Gateway Inference proxy with logging

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