Kuku is a truly native, local-first markdown editor for macOS — built with Tauri, not Electron. Notes are stored as plainmd files with wikilinks, backlinks, and graph view. Its AI agent doesn’t just chat — it searches, edits, and links your files, with every change shown as Cursor-style diffs you can review. Fast, lightweight, offline-first. No cloud. No lock-in. Obsidian + Cursor, without Electron.
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Thank you for the thoughtful review.
Data ownership, local-first, and open source were exactly the principles we cared about when building Kuku. We believe personal notes and a second brain should be something users can truly own and control over the long term.
I also strongly agree with your point about the plugin / extension ecosystem. Internally, Kuku is already built around a plugin-system approach, but it’s not at the stage where we can expose it publicly yet.
Once that becomes available, I think it could make Kuku much more flexible and community-friendly. We’ll keep stabilizing the core while continuing to treat extensibility as an important direction.