Graxeon documentation

Graxeon is a schema-driven knowledge graph tool that stores your data as plain text .kgl files. It comes with three apps: Studio for authoring, Explorer for sharing, and Flow for automating ingestion. All three are open source and self-hostable.

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KGL format

The plain text file format that stores your knowledge graph.

Studio guide

Create schemas, add items, and manage your collections.

Explorer guide

Browse, search, and share your knowledge base with your team.

Flow guide

Connect a source, add a trigger, and let Flow write records into a collection automatically.

Updating from outside Graxeon

Pipelines, CI, mounted drives, and GUI tools that can write straight to a collection.

What is Graxeon?

Graxeon is a knowledge management tool for teams who want structured, relational data without the complexity of a full database. Think of it as a spreadsheet that understands relationships — where every row can have rich text, linked items, and typed fields.

The core idea is simple: you define schemas (types with fields), then populate collections with nodes (items) that conform to those schemas. Nodes can link to each other across collections, forming a knowledge graph you can browse, search, and share.

Three apps, one format

Graxeon ships as three complementary apps that speak the same KGL format:

Studio — the full authoring environment. Create schemas, add and edit items, upload files, manage collections and access.
Explorer — the browsing and sharing interface. Team members browse and search collections, view rich text, see related items, and (if invited as editors) update fields.
Flow — data ingestion and automation. Connect an external source, map its fields onto a schema, and have records land in a collection as typed nodes on a schedule, via webhook, or on demand.

All three apps run in the same Docker Compose stack. Users are created in Studio and can be given access to specific collections with viewer, editor, or owner roles.

Open source model

Graxeon Core (this project) is MIT-licensed and free to self-host. It includes the full Studio and Explorer apps, local file storage, S3/MinIO support, and the complete KGL format implementation.

The Graxeon Team cloud plan adds managed hosting, GitHub and Google SSO, automated backups, and team management. See pricing for details.

New to Graxeon? Start with the Studio guide to learn the core concepts and build your first collection.