Practical overview
When it fits
Use Tgo when you want to assemble a self-hosted AI customer-service workflow that combines knowledge retrieval and customer-channel handling with a path to human support.
Who it is for
- Organizations building AI-assisted customer-service workflows.
- Teams that need to connect support responses to internal documents, Q&A entries, or website content.
- Operators seeking a self-hosted platform with AI-to-human conversation handoff.
Documented uses
- Configure multiple AI agents for different customer-service scenarios and connect supported LLM providers.
- Build a knowledge base from documents, Q&A pairs, or crawled website content for semantic retrieval.
- Manage customer conversations from supported website and WeChat channels.
- Transfer conversations to human agents and manage visitor sessions and history.
Requirements & limits
The repository describes Tgo as open source and provides self-hosting instructions. Its README lists minimum server requirements of four CPU cores and 8 GiB of RAM; local development setup lists macOS, Linux, and WSL2.
- Tgo requires an organization to deploy and operate the platform on its own server for self-hosted use.
- The README lists a minimum of four CPU cores and 8 GiB RAM for system requirements.
- The documented channel examples include a website widget and WeChat Official Account and Mini Program integrations.
- The architecture spans multiple services and languages: TypeScript/React for the admin frontend and Python/FastAPI for several backend services.
- The README documents a Docker Compose development setup separately from its server bootstrap deployment.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Prepare a local Docker Compose development environment
Set up Tgo’s documented local development environment.
Before you start
- Docker Compose development environment
- Repository checkout with the .env.dev.example file
Steps
Copy .env.dev.example to .env.dev.
Run make dev to start the full development environment.
Expected outcome
The README’s documented command starts Tgo’s full development environment.
Guide limitations
- This covers local development setup, not production deployment or verification of a successful run.
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|---|---|---|---|
| Tgo | Configure multiple AI agents for different customer-service scenarios and connect supported LLM providers. | Docker, Self-hosted, Server | The repository describes Tgo as open source and provides self-hosting instructions. Its README lists minimum server requirements of four CPU cores and 8 GiB of RAM; local development setup lists macOS, Linux, and WSL2. |
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Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 17 October 2026
- Original website title
- tgoai/tgo · Official homepage title · retained in its source language

