Apps on LastDB

LastDB is the foundation. The apps are tools that run on it.

How ready is each tool for a stranger? How do you try the main ones? Install the stack from the home page first — then come back here.

[Install on Home →]

1 — HOW READY? ranked for a first-time user

Whole product is still alpha (macOS Apple Silicon). Rank #01 is what we’d hand you first; lower ranks are rougher or not in the default installer. Stage labels are the real signal. The ~% bars are only a gut ranking — not SLAs or failure rates.

ALPHA

Daily drivers. Sharp edges OK — start here.

DOGFOOD

Ships in the installer; more papercuts.

EARLY

Real for us; not in the default installer.

ALPHAInstall these first — we run them every day.

Brainbrain

Long-term memory. Public CLI + MCP. Still alpha edges.

~75%

LastDBbrew · lastdbd

The database itself. Everything below talks to this process.

~70%

Kanbankanban

Work board + MCP. Public repo is still named fkanban.

~70%

DOGFOODIn the default installer — more papercuts than Alpha.

Last Stackinstaller + skills

How you install the stack. Agent skills, not a data app.

~60%

Situationssituations

Ops posture for agents. Critical for us; thinner stranger story.

~55%

Searchsearch

Semantic MiniLM plane outside Mini. brain/kanban prefer it for ask/search. Public MIT.

~50%

LastSecretslastsecrets

Public CLI. Store secrets in LastDB; other tools keep lastsecrets:// refs only.

~50%

Dogfood Graphlocal web app

Manual UX evidence tool. Useful, not a polished product.

~45%

EARLYReal for us — not in the one-command installer. Come back later.

Routinesroutines

Scheduled agent jobs. Our fleet tooling, not stranger onboarding.

~35%

LastGitlastdb://…

Git on LastDB. Not in the public install bundle yet.

~30%

CodeRingscoderings

Repo size vs claimed complexity. No public install story yet.

~25%

Discovery—

Friends-of-friends discovery. Not a public try path.

~25%

First try: install from the home page, then use Brain and Kanban (and Situations / LastSecrets when you need ops gates or credentials). Ignore Early apps until you’re curious.

2 — TRY THE MAIN ONES after install

After the home-page installer finishes, these CLIs are the ones you actually type. Last Stack was the installer itself; Dogfood Graph is a local web app (see below).

ALPHA BRAIN memory · brain

Long-term notes and decisions. Ask later in plain English.

brain concept new caching --title "Cache" --body "chose LRU because …"
brain ask "what did we decide about caching?"
brain list --type concept --limit 5

ALPHA KANBAN board · kanban

What’s in flight. Status lives here; reasoning lives in Brain.

kanban add ship-login --title "Ship login" --tags auth
kanban move ship-login doing
kanban list

DOGFOOD SITUATIONS ops · situations

What’s true operationally right now — freezes, incidents, preflight gates.

situations list
situations preflight --action enable-ci --repo my-org/my-repo

DOGFOOD LASTSECRETS credentials · lastsecrets

Keep raw secrets out of Brain, docs, and chat. Store once; reference with lastsecrets://… everywhere else.

lastsecrets init
# never put the value on the command line — stdin only
printf '%s' "$TOKEN" | lastsecrets put my-api-token \
  --label "My API token" \
  --provider example \
  --purpose demo \
  --env dev \
  --value-stdin
lastsecrets ref my-api-token
# → lastsecrets://my-api-token
lastsecrets list
# list/search always print value=<redacted>

ALSO IN THE INSTALLER

Dogfood Graph — local web app for manual product evidence:

cd ~/lastdb-apps/dogfood-graph && npm run dev

Day-to-day loop (board + brain + agents): [How to use it →]

3 — MANUAL INSTALL advanced · skip if you used Home

Prefer not to use the Last Stack installer? Install the database, then only the apps you want:

brew install edgevector/lastdb/lastdb
brew services start lastdb

BRAIN

git clone https://github.com/EdgeVector/brain && cd brain
bun install && bun link
brain init --grant-consent

KANBAN

git clone https://github.com/EdgeVector/fkanban && cd fkanban
bun install && bun run install-cli
kanban init

Repo name is still fkanban; the command is kanban.

SITUATIONS

git clone https://github.com/EdgeVector/situations && cd situations
bun install
ln -snf "$PWD/bin/situations" ~/.local/bin/situations
situations init

LASTSECRETS

git clone https://github.com/EdgeVector/lastsecrets && cd lastsecrets
bun install && bun link
lastsecrets init

Public repo: github.com/EdgeVector/lastsecrets. Retrieve plaintext only at the point of use with lastsecrets get <slug>.

git clone https://github.com/EdgeVector/search && cd search
bun install
ln -snf "$PWD/bin/search" ~/.local/bin/search
search init

Public MIT repo: github.com/EdgeVector/search. Semantic MiniLM plane for brain ask/search and kanban search. Index is local-only; run search init after install or cloud restore.