Intelligex Chronos – self-hosted control plane for agents and MCP services

Create agents visually on the built-in canvas, or register external agents from any framework — broker every tool through one audited MCP gateway.

 

Why use Intelligex Chronos?

• Intelligex Chronos is a controll plane - deploy, run and manage agents built on the Chronos visual canvas or standalone, code-first agents via OpenAI API specification. All through one unified interface.
• MCP tool gateway. Tools are MCP servers. Chronos provides MCP registry and gateway. Agents reach tools in a unified, credential-brokered and audited way.
• Governance is inbuilt. SSO, RBAC, stop-switches, audit log and PII redaction.
• Observability built in. Chronos uses OpenTelemetry standrad to keep visibility.

Quick start

Get Intelligex Chronos running locally in under 5 minutes. The fastest way to try it is to build and run the all‑in‑one Docker container image.

# clone the repository
git clone git@github.com:intelligexhq/chronos.git
cd chronos_app/docker

# build local image
docker build -f Dockerfile.local -t chronos:local ..

# run Chronos image
docker run -d --name chronos -p 3001:3000 chronos:local
# chronos is now available at:
# http://localhost:3001

For more configuration and complex hosting examples, including locally hosted vectorstores, Ollama, queue modes, etc. — see advanced docker compose examples section.

Get involved

• ⭐ Star this repo to support development
• Contribute via PRs; suggest issues, features and use cases.

Key concepts

Concept-level overviews of the Intelligex Chronos control plane:

• Chronos Agent registry — how canvas-built and external HTTP agents share one agent registry.
• Chronos MCP registry — the credential-brokered and audited Chronos MCP gateway.
• Chronos schedules — recurring agent runs on a cron type schedules. In-process or queue-backed.
• Chronos data management — how Chronos manages data and what data ownership means.
• Chronos governance — SSO, RBAC, audit and budgets.

Tutorials

Hands-on guides for running Intelligex Chronos and managing agents.

• Chronos self-hosted quickstart
• Chronos self-hosted – advanced docker compose examples
• Build your first canvas agent in Chronos
• Build a RAG agent with Qdrant and Ollama
• Register an HTTP agent in Chronos
• Register an MCP server in Chronos
• Schedule agent runs in Chronos
• Rotate the Chronos agent callback token
• How and where Chronos stores data

License

Source code in this repository is made available under the Apache License Version 2.0.

Need assistance?

We provide professional services to help you deploy, customise, and integrate Intelligex Chronos in your organisations environment:

• Architecture and deployment in environments you own (private or public clouds).
• Maintaining MCP tool registries. Managing and auditing MCP tools / internal API usage.
• Training and best practice blueprints for teams who designing, building and maintaining agents and agentic systems.