---
title: "rowboat"
type: "tool"
slug: "rowboatlabs-rowboat"
canonical_url: "https://www.graphcanon.com/tools/rowboatlabs-rowboat"
github_url: "https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat"
homepage_url: "https://www.rowboatlabs.com"
stars: 15127
forks: 1537
primary_language: "TypeScript"
license: "Apache-2.0"
categories: ["ai-agents", "evaluation-observability"]
tags: ["memory", "agents", "productivity", "knowledge-graph", "ai-agents"]
updated_at: "2026-07-07T19:47:04.688886+00:00"
---

# rowboat

> AI coworker with memory for desktop productivity

Rowboat is an open-source AI tool that acts as a memory-augmented assistant for productivity purposes, indexing work data into a knowledge graph and providing various surfaces to interact and collaborate.

## Facts

- Repository: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat
- Homepage: https://www.rowboatlabs.com
- Stars: 15,127 · Forks: 1,537 · Open issues: 99 · Watchers: 82
- Primary language: TypeScript
- License: Apache-2.0
- Last pushed: 2026-07-07T19:21:45+00:00

## Categories

- [AI Agents](/categories/ai-agents.md)
- [Evaluation & Observability](/categories/evaluation-observability.md)

## Tags

memory, agents, productivity, knowledge-graph, ai-agents

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## README (excerpt)

```text
<h5 align="center">

<h1 align="center">Rowboat</h1>
<p align="center">A desktop AI coworker with a memory of your work and built-in surfaces to act on it.</p>

<p align="center" style="display: flex; justify-content: center; gap: 20px; align-items: center;">
  <a href="https://trendshift.io/repositories/13609" target="blank">
    <img src="https://trendshift.io/api/badge/repositories/13609" alt="rowboatlabs/rowboat | Trendshift" width="250" height="55"/>
  </a>
</p>

<p align="center">
    <a href="https://www.rowboatlabs.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <img alt="Website" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Website-10b981?labelColor=10b981&logo=window&logoColor=white">
  </a>
  <a href="https://discord.gg/wajrgmJQ6b" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <img alt="Discord" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Discord-5865F2?logo=discord&logoColor=white&labelColor=5865F2">
  </a>
  <a href="https://x.com/intent/user?screen_name=rowboatlabshq" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <img alt="Twitter" src="https://img.shields.io/twitter/follow/rowboatlabshq?style=social">
  </a>
  <a href="https://www.ycombinator.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">
    <img alt="Y Combinator" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Y%20Combinator-S24-orange">
  </a>
</p>

</h5>

Rowboat indexes your work into a living knowledge graph and uses that to get work done on your machine. It includes work surfaces for collaborating with AI: email client, notes, browser, code mode, meeting note taker, and workspaces for different projects. 


Download latest for Mac/Windows/Linux: [Download](https://www.rowboatlabs.com/downloads)

<p align="center">
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xI">
<img width="1091" height="632" alt="Rowboat demo video" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/440087ae-5674-427a-87bb-831b0bea7de4" />
</a>
</p>

<p align="center">
  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et5yQABJ3xI"> Demo - apps to code </a> · <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTpciZCfpw"> Demo - knowledge graph</a>
</p>


⭐ If you find Rowboat useful, please star the repo. It helps more people find it.

---
## Overview

<table>
<tr>
<td width="40%" valign="middle">
<h3>Brain</h3>
Rowboat indexes email, meetings, slack and assistant conversations into a living Obsidian-style backlinked knowledge graph. 
</td>
<td width="60%">
<img width="1499" height="940" alt="Screenshot 2026-06-24 at 11 22 52 PM" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/203ca1d5-2f40-43dd-8da7-c5cef4e31a41" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40%" valign="middle">
<h3>Email</h3>
The built-in email client sorts emails into important and everything else. Rowboat automatically drafts responses for important email using all the work context.
</td>
<td width="60%">
<img width="1512" height="948" alt="Email screenshot" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4392b3ca-cc4c-473a-849a-eea0e97388f2" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40%" valign="middle">
<h3>Background agents</h3>
You can set up background agents that run on events like new email or on schedule like every day at 8am. They can connect to tools, search the web, use the browser and write code using Claude Code or Codex.  
</td>
<td width="60%">
<img width="1512" height="951" alt="Background agents screenshot" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5b73a3c3-f0d3-4151-83e7-0997457074e6" />

</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40%" valign="middle">
<h3>Built-in Browser</h3>
Rowboat includes a browser that lets you and assistant collaborate on web tasks. Because its isolated from your main browser, you can log in only to the accounts that want the assistant to access. 
</td>
<td width="60%">
<img width="1512" height="948" alt="Browser screenshot" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/ce04871f-4477-40eb-8310-13ef7f125b11" />
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="40%" valign="middle">
<h3>Meeting Notes</h3>
A local meeting note-taker that taps into mic & speaker, produces live transcript and summarizes the meetin
```

---

**Machine-readable endpoints**

- JSON: [`/api/graphcanon/tools/rowboatlabs-rowboat`](/api/graphcanon/tools/rowboatlabs-rowboat)
- LLM index: [/llms.txt](/llms.txt)
- Full corpus: [/llms-full.txt](/llms-full.txt)

_GraphCanon - The knowledge graph for AI development. https://www.graphcanon.com/_