SELF-HOSTED · FREE

Run Actae on your own machine. No account required.

Actae Self-Hosted Community is the free, self-contained build: one binary that embeds the API, the dashboard, and PostgreSQL. Download it, run it, and fork a production agent run in about a minute. No card, no enrollment, no control plane.

No account, card, or control plane. The archive includes a SHA-256 in the release manifest; verify it against SHA256SUMS and its GPG signature (public key at .well-known). Alpine/musl hosts: `actae` itself is static and runs everywhere; the embedded PostgreSQL archives for Alpine are published as linux-x86_64-alpine / linux-aarch64-alpine. macOS: the binary is ad-hoc signed, so no Apple Developer account is needed — but a browser download is quarantined by macOS. Use the one-line xattr fix in the quickstart below, or download with curl (never quarantined).

  1. Download and run

    $ tar -xzf actae-<version>-<platform>.tar.gz
$ chmod +x ./actae

# macOS Gatekeeper only blocks browser downloads — one-time fix:
$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ./actae

# starts the API + dashboard + a managed PostgreSQL cluster
$ ./actae

    Operational in ~60 seconds — one binary, no Docker, no external database. The banner prints your dashboard URL and a one-time sk-… API key: copy them now (the key is shown once).

  2. Install an SDK

    • Pythonpip install actae-clientPython 3.9+
    • Gogo get github.com/BViganotti/actae-goGo 1.25+
    • TypeScriptnpm install @actae/sdkNode 20+, ESM

    Or run actae add in your project — it detects your agent stack and prints the exact install command and setup file. Framework adapters (LangGraph, LangChain, Claude, OpenAI Agents, CrewAI, Codex, Copilot) ship inside the SDKs.

  3. Record your first event

    import asyncio
from actae_client import ActaeClient

async def main():
    async with ActaeClient(
        endpoint="http://127.0.0.1:8002",   # use the URL from the banner
        api_key="<API key from the banner>",
    ) as client:
        event = await client.record(
            "my-channel", "tool.completed",
            payload={"result": "success"}, actor="my-agent",
        )
        print("recorded cursor", event.cursor)

asyncio.run(main())

    Open the dashboard URL from the banner to watch the event land. Read the full quickstart · Create a free account to manage keys and get release and security notices (optional).

  4. Verify what you downloaded

    $ curl -fsSL https://actae.dev/v1/community/SHA256SUMS -o SHA256SUMS
$ curl -fsSL https://actae.dev/v1/community/SHA256SUMS.asc -o SHA256SUMS.asc
$ curl -fsSL https://actae.dev/.well-known/actae-release-signing-key.asc | gpg --import
$ gpg --verify SHA256SUMS.asc SHA256SUMS
$ shasum -a 256 -c SHA256SUMS --ignore-missing

    Every release publishes SHA-256 checksums and a GPG-signed checksum manifest, and macOS builds are code-signed. The release public key is served at /.well-known/actae-release-signing-key.asc. Never run a binary you have not verified.

WHAT YOU GET
  • One self-contained binary — API, dashboard, and PostgreSQL baked in
  • Free forever for single-node self-hosting; no account or card
  • Exact-boundary forks, immutable receipts, and structural state diff
  • Idempotent tool-execution ledger (claim / lease / replay)
  • Crash recovery, replay-to-live, and multi-agent coordination
  • Python, Go, and TypeScript SDKs plus framework adapters
WHAT PAID ADDS
  • Managed Cloud runtime — no infrastructure to operate
  • `actae upgrade` — signed, control-plane-managed self-hosted updates
  • Enrollment, the customer portal, and fleet management
  • Support and a path to an SLA

The community build is single-node and self-supporting. To run it managed, or to get signed updates and support, see Cloud plans. Actae never executes your agent code; you run it against your own machine. Read the quickstart