NISB is a self-hosted AI workspace for small servers
NISB is an AI workspace that can be installed and run on your own server. It brings daily Markdown notes and files into one workspace, with , favorites, focus folders, and saved workspace state. Search covers four areas: chats, directories, files, and libraries. It can keep evidence libraries and let people jump back to the source parts behind an answer.
RSS feeds can be subscribed to and used in search-and-answer workflows. Workflows are organized as Rooms, and worker Rooms can use different knowledge sources. A Room can be published as an external MCP capability, so tools such as LibreChat and MCP Inspector can call it. NISB can also connect to other NISB nodes, share Room capabilities, revoke access, and use a shared Room as a worker inside another Room.
Deployment is aimed at an Ubuntu VPS using and Caddy, and it is designed for a small server. The project is AGPLv3 open source, with commercial licensing for closed-source or SaaS use.
Key points
- NISB is a workspace for notes, files, search, and .
- It searches chats, directories, files, and libraries.
- It supports RSS feeds and RSS-based search-and-answer workflows.
- Rooms can be published as MCP capabilities for tools like LibreChat and MCP Inspector.
- The recommended setup is Ubuntu VPS, , and Caddy on a small server.