Community Edition

All of Canon, free, on your own machine.

MIT licensed. Your knowledge stays in your repos. Nothing leaves your machine unless you publish the site.

Install in three steps

Terminal
# 1. the CLI (Node 22+)
$ npm install -g @freetesh/canon

# 2. the Claude Code plugin
$ claude plugin marketplace add ritesh-firodiya/canon-cli
$ claude plugin install canon@canon

# 3. in each product repo
$ canon init && canon check

Included

  • Spaces, Today, All docs, search and answers
  • canon check, standards, MCP for agents
  • Constraint pipeline and canon flow
  • Ideas and linked docs
  • Private workspace
  • Write docs
  • Approve a gate
  • Markdown import

Needs Team or Enterprise

  • Comments, Inbox, mentions, watchers
  • Reviews and reviewers in the browser
  • GitHub App, sync on every push
  • Confluence, Notion, Google Docs import
  • Slack, Meet and email capture
  • Members and roles
  • Audit log
  • Single sign-on (SAML, OIDC), required SSO
  • SCIM and locked company rules
  • Dedicated instance, data region, SLA