GitHub - desplega-ai/agent-fs: A persistent, searchable filesystem for AI agents.

A persistent, searchable filesystem for AI agents.
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Agent FS gives AI agents a structured filesystem with built-in semantic search, versioning, and identity management. It runs as a CLI and an HTTP server with integrated MCP support — so any AI coding assistant can use it as a long-term memory and file store.

agent-fs was built to power the shared filesystem in agent-swarm — a multi-agent coordination framework. While it was designed for swarm agents to share files, search content, and collaborate, it works as a standalone filesystem for any AI agent.

Key Features

• Semantic search — Index and search files using vector embeddings (OpenAI, Google GenAI, or local llama.cpp)
• SQL queries — Run sandboxed DuckDB SQL over stored documents (CSV, TSV, Parquet, Excel, JSON, NDJSON, SQLite, DuckDB) — see docs/sql.md
• Structured storage — SQLite-backed file operations with metadata and versioning
• S3-compatible sync — Sync agent workspaces to any S3-compatible object store
• Identity management — Persistent agent identity files that evolve over time
• MCP integration — Expose filesystem operations as MCP tools for Claude Code, Codex, and other assistants
• HTTP API — RESTful server powered by Hono for programmatic access
• CLI — Single binary (agent-fs) for local use and scripting

Quick Start

Install

Requires Bun >= 1.2.0.

bun add -g @desplega.ai/agent-fs

Or build from source:

git clone https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-fs.git
cd agent-fs
bun install
bun run build

Usage

# Show available commands
agent-fs --help

Architecture

Agent FS is a Bun monorepo with four packages:

FUSE mount (Linux)

agent-fs can expose your drives as a Linux FUSE filesystem so agents can use plain shell verbs (cat, grep, mv, rm) against agent-fs content.

# Linux only — the FUSE helper sub-package auto-installs via optionalDependencies.
# Use Bun's installer; stock Ubuntu/Debian Node (18.x) chokes on a dep's
# postinstall and aborts the global install.
bun install -g @desplega.ai/agent-fs
agent-fs daemon start
agent-fs mount /mnt/agent-fs

Requirements

• Linux x86_64 or aarch64. macOS and Windows are not supported (FUSE is a Linux kernel feature here).
• /dev/fuse must be accessible. In Docker, run with --cap-add SYS_ADMIN --device /dev/fuse.
• Sandboxes that use gVisor (GKE Sandbox, Cloud Run gen1), GitHub Codespaces, Modal sandboxes, or Fly.io Machines cannot mount FUSE — fall back to the CLI/MCP path.

Local-dev escape hatch (AGENT_FS_FUSE_BIN)

If you're building the helper from source (e.g. macOS dev host or a custom Linux build), point the CLI at your local binary:

cd packages/fuse-helper && cargo build --release
export AGENT_FS_FUSE_BIN="$PWD/target/release/agent-fs-fuse"
agent-fs mount /tmp/m

AGENT_FS_FUSE_BIN takes precedence over the auto-resolved sub-package binary.

Remote mount (--remote)

When your agents run inside a sandbox that can't host a local daemon (Sprite, E2B, ephemeral CI runners), point the mount at a remote agent-fs HTTP API instead of a local Unix socket:

agent-fs mount /mnt/agent-fs --remote \
  --api-url https://my-agent-fs.example.com \
  --api-key "$AGENT_FS_API_KEY"

The helper talks to the remote API directly — no local daemon, no S3 credentials in the sandbox. End-to-end coverage for this topology lives at scripts/e2e-remote-mount.ts:

# Spins up MinIO, a host-side daemon, and a Docker container with fuse3.
# Mounts via --remote against the daemon's HTTP API and exercises ~8 ops.
# Requires Docker Desktop / OrbStack on Mac.
bun run scripts/e2e-remote-mount.ts

macOS testing harness

macOS can build the helper but not mount it. Use the Docker harness to test mount behaviour from a Mac host:

bash packages/fuse-helper/docker/run-mount-test.sh

Per-environment guides

See docs/mounting/ for the general overview plus step-by-step guides for Sprite, E2B, and Hetzner Cloud. Existing FUSE references — fuse-mount.md, fuse-compat.md, fuse-troubleshooting.md — cover mount semantics, sandbox compatibility, and the full error catalogue.

Documentation

• Mounting Guides — General overview + per-env guides (Sprite, E2B, Hetzner)
• MCP Setup Guide — Connect agent-fs to Claude Code, Cursor, or any MCP client
• Deployment Guide — Local, remote S3, team, and multi-agent deployments
• API Reference — HTTP API and OpenAPI spec

Development

bun install          # Install dependencies
bun run typecheck    # Type checking
bun run test         # Run tests
bun run build        # Bundle CLI for npm

See CONTRIBUTING.md for the full development guide.

Releasing

1. Update version in root package.json
2. Commit the version bump
3. Run ./scripts/release.sh

This creates a git tag and pushes it, triggering the release workflow which publishes to npm and creates a GitHub Release.

Deploy to Fly.io

Deploy a persistent agent-fs instance to Fly.io with Tigris S3 storage:

git clone https://github.com/desplega-ai/agent-fs && cd agent-fs
bun run scripts/fly-deploy.ts

See DEPLOYMENT.md for Docker, BYOK storage, and manual setup options.

Live Viewer

live.agent-fs.dev — A stateless browser UI (local storage only) for inspecting any agent-fs deployment. Point it at your server URL to browse files and search content — nothing is stored server-side.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Whether it's bug reports, feature requests, docs improvements, or code — all are welcome.

1. Fork the repo
2. Create a branch (git checkout -b my-feature)
3. Make your changes
4. Open a PR

Join our Discord if you have questions or want to discuss ideas.

License

MIT — 2025-2026 desplega.ai