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.
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.
ON THE SHELF means the app is on the LastDB app registry: the installer checks it out at the exact commit that was proved with the LastDB build on your machine, not at main. A row gets there only one way: each night the release loop installs every app at a fixed commit in a fresh home, runs the public install path, and after a 24 h clean soak publishes that set to brew stable and to the registry together.
Daily drivers. Sharp edges OK — start here.
Ships in the installer; more papercuts.
Real for us; not in the default installer.
BrainbrainON THE SHELF
Long-term memory. Public CLI + MCP. Still alpha edges.
LastDBbrew · lastdbd
The database itself (brew stable 0.23.5). Everything below talks to this process.
KanbankanbanON THE SHELF
Work board + MCP. Public repo is still named fkanban.
Last Stackinstaller + skills
How you install the stack. Agent skills, not a data app.
SituationssituationsON THE SHELF
Ops posture for agents. Critical for us; thinner stranger story.
SearchsearchON THE SHELF
Semantic MiniLM plane outside Mini. brain/kanban prefer it for ask/search. Public MIT.
LastSecretslastsecretsON THE SHELF
Public CLI. Store secrets in LastDB; other tools keep lastsecrets:// refs only.
OrgorgON THE SHELF
Invite and join an org. Needed for the "join my org" onboarding path.
Dogfood Graphlocal web appON THE SHELF
Manual UX evidence tool. Useful, not a polished product.
LastDB Browserlastdb-browserON THE SHELF
Read-only local UI for schemas, keys, records, and atoms over the local socket.
RoutinesroutinesON THE SHELF
Scheduled agent jobs. Installs with the stack; our fleet tooling more than stranger onboarding.
LastGitlastdb://…
Git on LastDB. Not in the public install bundle yet.
CodeRingscoderings
Repo size vs claimed complexity. No public install story yet.
Discovery—
Friends-of-friends discovery. Not a public try path.
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.
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.
Never put the secret value on the command line — stdin only. lastsecrets ref prints a lastsecrets://… locator; list/search always print value=<redacted>.
lastsecrets init printf '%s' "$TOKEN" | lastsecrets put my-api-token \ --label "My API token" \ --provider example \ --purpose demo \ --env dev \ --value-stdin lastsecrets ref my-api-token lastsecrets list
THE SHELF registry · lastdb app
Which apps were proved with your LastDB build, and the exact commit each one installs at. No account, no live service — one signed index on the Homebrew tap.
lastdb app list lastdb app install brain lastdb app upgrade brain kanban situations
ALSO IN THE INSTALLER
Dogfood Graph — local web app for manual product evidence:
cd ~/lastdb-apps/dogfood-graph && npm run dev
Day-to-day loop (board + brain + agents): [How to use it →]
Prefer not to use the Last Stack installer? Install the database, then only the apps you want. lastdb app install puts the proved commit under ~/.lastdb/apps/<app>/source; the bun step and the link are yours.
brew install edgevector/lastdb/lastdb brew services start lastdb
BRAIN
lastdb app install brain cd ~/.lastdb/apps/brain/source && bun install && bun link brain init --grant-consent
KANBAN
lastdb app install kanban cd ~/.lastdb/apps/kanban/source && bun install && bun run install-cli kanban init
Repo name is still fkanban; the command is kanban.
SITUATIONS
lastdb app install situations cd ~/.lastdb/apps/situations/source && bun install ln -snf "$PWD/bin/situations" ~/.local/bin/situations situations init
LASTSECRETS
lastdb app install lastsecrets cd ~/.lastdb/apps/lastsecrets/source && bun install && bun link lastsecrets init
Public repo: github.com/EdgeVector/lastsecrets. Retrieve plaintext only at the point of use with lastsecrets get <slug>.
SEARCH
lastdb app install search cd ~/.lastdb/apps/search/source && npm ci --omit=dev --no-audit --no-fund ln -snf "$PWD/bin/search" ~/.local/bin/search search init --quiet
Public MIT repo: github.com/EdgeVector/search. Semantic MiniLM plane for brain ask/search and kanban search. Index is local-only; run search init --quiet after install or cloud restore. Use npm for Search so its native runtime setup runs.
Unproved main instead (older lastdb, or a commit nobody smoked yet): git clone https://github.com/EdgeVector/<repo> and the same bun step. The installer does this itself, and says so, when your lastdb predates 0.23.5.