Apache Maka (Incubating)

_{Incubating at The Apache Software Foundation}

A local-first Agent workspace built for real work.
Maka inspects projects, runs tools under a sandbox boundary, and records model messages and tool calls as recoverable execution facts — on your machine, through one Runtime Host.

Maka — Your work. Your agent.

[!NOTE] Apache Maka (Incubating) is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision-making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF. DISCLAIMER-WIP records the issues the project is currently aware of.

[!IMPORTANT] Maka is under active development. The macOS Apple Silicon desktop build is an early public release; data formats, CLI commands, and experimental capabilities may still change.

Why Maka¶

Your machine, your data. Sessions, settings, and run records stay local by default. You bring the model: a cloud API, a local model, or a compatible gateway.
The record is kept. Model messages, tool calls, tool results, and how a turn ended are written down. The UI and the next model call are views of that record, not the only copy.
Shorter context is not deleted history. Maka can omit old tool output from the next prompt without throwing away the saved evidence.
One place runs the agent. Desktop, the terminal, and Maka evaluation all go through Runtime Host. Eval only owns the experiment and its scores.

Read [Maka Backend Architecture](./ARC