Knotwork

about

description

Knotwork is an AI agent that runs its model on the phone. Instead of a prompt box wired to somebody's API, every conversation runs through a pipeline you can open and edit: a graph of typed nodes - input, on-device LLM, optional cloud LLM, tool call, routing, decomposition, evaluation, clarification, output. When a step wants to do something destructive or sensitive, it stops and asks you first - including in the background, where the confirmation arrives as a notification. WHAT IT DOES - Runs on your device. On-device inference through LiteRT-LM, with optional GPU acceleration; CPU-only works, just slower. Cloud providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Ollama) are optional, opt-in and bring-your-own-key. - You build the behaviour. A drag-and-drop editor with pan and pinch-zoom, snap-to-grid, auto-layout, inline validation and a run-trace overlay, across 14 node types. Prompt variables such as $DATE, $TIME, $TOOLS, $MODEL and $MEMORY_SUMMARY render fresh on every run. - Tools, gated by you. Local actions through AppFunctions and external servers through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Every sensitive or destructive call stops for explicit confirmation, enforced where the tool executes, not merely suggested to the model. - Reaches you from outside the app. A share target, launcher shortcuts and a Quick Settings tile run your chosen pipeline over shared text or images. Triggers (time, charging, Wi-Fi, network) fire a pipeline on their own and report back. Every entry surface stays inert until you bind a pipeline to it. - Remembers what matters. Long-term memory with semantic retrieval over past conversations, automatic fact extraction, search and export. WHO IT IS FOR It is for the person who already runs Tasker, Obsidian, Home Assistant or a local model on their own hardware, and who wants to know exactly what their agent does with their data. It is deliberately not a mass-market "ask a question, get an answer" assistant - Gemini is free and built into the OS, and competing there is a losing bet. PRIVACY There is no account, no sign-in and no server of mine. Inference runs on the phone, so a normal conversation never leaves it. Data goes out only along paths the privacy policy lists, each off until you switch it on - except the built-in Wikipedia lookup, on by default. Usage statistics stay on the device and are never transmitted; a build-time check fails the build if any network dependency reaches that code. The database - chats, memory, run traces - is SQLCipher-encrypted, and API keys are sealed under an Android Keystore key. Crash reporting is opt-in, off by default, and absent entirely from the FOSS build. KNOWN LIMITATIONS This is a pre-release. The public surface, the settings layout and the on-device storage formats can still change between versions. - Android 14+ and about 2 GB of free RAM - the memory is the real constraint. - Shared pipeline files are not a compatibility contract yet: exports carry a version stamp, but before 1.0 that stamp is a marker, not a promise. Keep the original. - The reliability numbers come from one device and one operator: a scheduled pipeline ran 7.14 days without the app being opened and completed 55 of 55 firings with no unexplained misses. That is a real measurement, and it is not external validation. - Background runs need the battery setting on Unrestricted. Without it Android reclaims the process in about ten seconds - the platform's rule, not a bug, but until you grant it background pipelines will not run. - Cloud failure behaviour differs by provider: detection of a stream that dies mid-answer is enabled only where it was measured. - Other apps' AppFunctions are out of reach - Android keeps the permission to call one for system apps. The local catalogue is what ships, plus whatever you connect over MCP. - One maintainer, no company behind it. Open source under the Apache License 2.0; source, documentation and an FAQ are on the developer website.

publisher

78ce6faa72264387284e647ba6938995735ec8c7d5c5a65737e55130f026307d

first seen

2026-10-24T00:20:39.282939+00:00

last event

2026-10-25 03:06 UTC

install

zapstore.dev or any Zapstore-compatible client

topics

#ai chat

source & build

repository

https://github.com/alexeyw/knotwork

arch flags

android-arm64-v8a

manifest

missing

releases (kind 30063)

2 releases indexed; latest 0.12.1.

version	channel	released	event
0.12.1	main	2026-10-25 03:06 UTC	81514a70…
0.12.0	main	2026-10-16 14:57 UTC	169c7eb8…

assets & verification

Every app, release and asset event is schnorr-verified (NIP-01 id + signature) before it enters the catalog, and assets are content-addressed by sha256. We subscribe read-only to the catalog relay — never write to it.

0.12.1 — knotwork-0.12.1-foss-release.apk

sha256

523d61dce4fcc5febeebb411e6e91e77c20e07d04fd3a004e693b96a38b62c9a

size

61.6 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

18

apk cert sha256

e50c8aa47c38c808e449c87dbcd4ab9d0d810bcd8ca9d33fd0ce83d492c81651

download

knotwork-0.12.1-foss-release.apk

0.12.0 — knotwork-0.12.0-foss-release.apk

sha256

608d9593609930e9cc079bd29c22af18ee2fc6fd3eecdbef207d6a320ce0dac6

size

61.6 MB

archs

android-arm64-v8a

version code

17

apk cert sha256

e50c8aa47c38c808e449c87dbcd4ab9d0d810bcd8ca9d33fd0ce83d492c81651

download

knotwork-0.12.0-foss-release.apk

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