# Nox Kit > Nox Kit is an open-source, self-hosted dark software factory. AI agents take tickets from Jira, Linear, GitHub or Slack through configurable pipelines (spec, code, tests, review, release) and stop for people only where your policy says so. Nox Kit is open source (MIT) and self-hosted. Source: https://github.com/makeagentic/noxkit ## Pages - [Home](https://noxkit.ai/): what Nox Kit does, how a ticket becomes a release, architecture, guardrails, quickstart, FAQ - [What is a dark software factory](https://noxkit.ai/dark-software-factory): definition, autonomy levels, components, when it makes sense - [Full text for LLMs](https://noxkit.ai/llms-full.txt): the content of this site as plain Markdown ## Key facts - Category: dark software factory / autonomous software delivery platform - License: MIT, free to use - Deployment: self-hosted, Docker Compose on a single machine to start - Models: any OpenAI- or Anthropic-compatible provider through the built-in LLM gateway - Agent runtimes: OpenHands, Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI - Orchestration: Temporal; storage: PostgreSQL 16, Redis Streams, S3-compatible - Autonomy levels: assisted, supervised, dark