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What is Kition? A 5-minute intro to the local-first AI workspace

Kition combines Obsidian-style Markdown notes, Notion-style data tables, and a real AI agent — all in one local-first workspace.

Kition Team·Jan 12, 2026·5 min read

In one sentence

Kition is an AI workspace that runs on your own machine. Documents stay as `.md` on disk, structured tables sit in the same vault, and the AI agent can actually read files, run commands, and drive a browser — it does not just answer questions.

Why it is not just another note app

Most note tools either lock data in the cloud (Notion, Roam) or treat AI as a decoration (Obsidian plugins, Evernote sidebar). Kition inverts both: data is local, AI is first-class.

"Local-first" means even if we disappear, any Markdown editor still opens your notes. "First-class agent" means it can patch files, run tests, and scrape pages — not just stream markdown into a chat window.

What you can try in 5 minutes

  • Download the app and pick a folder as your vault
  • Configure a model (OpenAI, Anthropic, or AiApiy all work)
  • Ask the agent to organize a Markdown doc
  • Ask the agent to save a web article into your vault
  • Try an AI field in a table — one row, fields auto-fill

Ready when you are.

Kition is a local-first AI workspace. Markdown documents, structured tables, and an AI agent — running on your own machine, against the model provider you choose.