enowX

A flexible developer workspace in a single binary.

enowX bundles an AI gateway, a plugin runtime, a built-in terminal and file browser, and a small community layer into one local app that runs on a single port. Add your own providers, extend it with plugins, and drive it from a clean web UI or the enx CLI — no external services required.

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What is enowX?

enowX is a self-hosted developer workspace. It started as an OpenAI/Anthropic-compatible LLM proxy, and that's still the core, but it has grown into a small, extensible desktop-in-a-tab:

• AI gateway — one endpoint that speaks the OpenAI and Anthropic wire formats, normalizes every request internally, and routes it to whichever provider you point it at. Pool many accounts, warm them up, and monitor usage.
• Plugins — run your own tools (Go / Node / Python / prebuilt binaries) as sidecars, each with its own UI, and publish/install them from a marketplace.
• Built-in tools — a real PTY terminal, a file browser, an API tester, and an agent toolset, all in the same window.
• Community layer — sign in with Discord for chat, posts, a plugin marketplace, profiles, and optional cloud sync of your setup across devices.

Everything runs from a single binary that serves the API, the management UI, and the local database on one port. State lives in a pure-Go SQLite database, so there are no external dependencies to run it.

Install

Install script

Linux and macOS:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/enowdev/enowx/main/install.sh | sh

Windows (PowerShell):

irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/enowdev/enowx/main/install.ps1 | iex

The installer downloads the latest release for your OS/arch, verifies its checksum, and installs the enx binary (to /usr/local/bin on Unix, or %LOCALAPPDATA%\Programs\enx on Windows). Override the location with ENX_INSTALL_DIR, or pin a version with ENX_VERSION=vX.Y.Z.

Download a release binary

Prebuilt binaries for Linux, macOS, and Windows (amd64 and arm64) are attached to every release on the Releases page. Download the asset for your platform, rename it to enx (or enx.exe on Windows), make it executable, and put it on your PATH.

Build from source

Requires Go 1.26+ and Node 22+.

git clone https://github.com/enowdev/enowx.git
cd enowx
make build      # builds the web UI, embeds it, and produces bin/enx
./bin/enx

Quickstart

Start enowX (it runs in the background by default):

enx

It listens on 127.0.0.1:1430. Open http://localhost:1430 for the workspace UI. On first launch you set a dashboard password; from there you can add provider accounts, install plugins, and (optionally) sign in with Discord.

Once a provider account is in the pool, send a standard OpenAI request:

curl http://localhost:1430/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "model": "gpt-4o",
    "messages": [{"role": "user", "content": "Hello"}]
  }'

Streaming works with "stream": true and is returned as OpenAI-style server-sent events. Anthropic-format requests are accepted at /anthropic/v1/messages.

The enx CLI

The binary is enx; running it with no arguments starts the server. It also has a small set of commands for headless / VPS use:

enx                   # start the server in the background
enx start -f          # run in the foreground (this terminal)
enx stop              # stop the server
enx restart           # restart it
enx status            # is it running? pid + address + version
enx doctor            # environment checklist (runtimes, config, server)
enx update [--check]  # self-update to the latest release
enx tunnel start      # expose the dashboard via a public URL (Cloudflare)
enx tunnel stop       # tear the tunnel down
enx version           # print the version

On a headless box, enx start + enx tunnel start prints a public URL; opening it prompts you to set the dashboard password on first visit, so remote access is gated by default.

AI gateway

Routing

The model field selects the upstream provider:

• A provider/model prefix routes explicitly, e.g. codebuddy/... or kiro/....
• Known prefixes route automatically (kiro-..., codebuddy-...).
• Anything else falls back to the OpenAI-compatible upstream.

Inbound OpenAI and Anthropic traffic is normalized into one internal request. Outbound, each provider re-encodes only what it needs: providers that already speak OpenAI pass through unchanged; providers with their own formats are normalized per provider. Providers today include OpenAI-compatible upstreams, CodeBuddy (global + CN), Kiro, Codex, Antigravity, Leonardo, and Suno, plus your own custom providers defined in the UI.

Endpoints

• POST /v1/chat/completions — OpenAI-compatible chat completions.
• POST /v1/images/generations — image generation.
• POST /anthropic/v1/messages — Anthropic-compatible messages.
• GET /health — health check.
• GET /api/* — management API used by the UI.
• / — embedded workspace UI.

Plugins

Plugins are sidecar apps with their own UI, launched by enowX and reachable at /plugins/<id>/. They can be written in Go, Node, Python, served as static files, or shipped as a prebuilt binary (bin runtime) so users run them with no toolchain installed. Create one from the Plugins app, or install a published plugin from the marketplace. Official plugins can ship prebuilt cross-platform binaries.

Configuration

Configuration is read from the environment and an optional config.json in the runtime directory.

Variable	Default	Description
ENOWX_PORT	1430	Listen port.
ENOWX_HOST	127.0.0.1	Listen address.
ENOWX_RUNTIME_DIR	~/.enowx	Data directory (SQLite database).
ENOWX_LOG_LEVEL	info	Log verbosity.

State is stored locally in a pure-Go SQLite database; no external services are required to run enowX.

Security model

enowX is local-first. The management surface (terminal, file browser, agent, and the rest of /api) is trusted only from the same machine; any request that arrives from elsewhere — e.g. through a tunnel — must carry a valid dashboard session, and a session can only exist once you've set a password. The dashboard password never leaves your machine, and credentials synced to the cloud are end-to-end encrypted (the server only ever sees ciphertext).

Development

Linux and macOS:

./dev.sh

Windows (PowerShell):

./dev.ps1

This installs dependencies if needed, then runs the backend and frontend on one port (http://localhost:1430) with hot reload and no build step. The Go server proxies the SPA and its hot-reload channel to an internal Vite dev server.

The built-in terminal uses a PTY and currently works on Linux and macOS; on Windows the rest of the app runs but the terminal is disabled.

Community and support

• Website: https://enowxlabs.com
• Discord: https://discord.gg/enowxlabs

License

See LICENSE.