Relate - Open-Source Typed, Permission-Aware Model of Business Data
Open-source typed, permission-aware model of business data: define business objects once in TypeScript, and apps plus agents query CRM, billing and other systems through one typed API with field-level permissions and provenance on every value.
Why it matters
Gives every agent the same permission-filtered view of the business - an agent only sees what the requesting user may see, with evidence and freshness on every value.
What you could build with it
A consultancy deploying agents for clients could adopt Relate as the shared data layer across engagements, cutting the per-project glue code for joining CRMs to billing systems while giving every agent auditable, permission-aware reads.
Does it hold up?
Too early to judge: the authors label it 0.0.0-dev.0, 'not ready for production workloads' and not yet on npm; the README ships a runnable two-minute example for evaluation.
Built with Relate
- Why we decided to open source Relatehn · Launch discussion on Hacker News (posted 2026-10-18).
- relatehq/relategithub · 12 ★ · Typed, permission-aware model of business data with MCP/HTTP/SDK/CLI access; Apache-2.0; 0.0.0-dev.0.
Learn more
First spotted on github: source.
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