Askaboard

Ask your AI agent a question, and it answers on a board. It draws, animates and talks you through the idea, step by step. You write and draw on the same board. The agent sees your work, checks it and builds on it.

Askaboard works with Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app or CLI, Cursor, and other local MCP clients. Use your own account with the agent you choose. The app has no AI of its own and no account.

Get started

1. Download Askaboard and move it to Applications.

2. Open it, then open a folder for your boards.

3. Click the agent pill at the top, then Connect an agent. The app installs the plugin for the agent you pick.

4. Restart your agent and ask it something. For example:

   Why is the sky blue?

   I cannot solve this one. Can you help me? Explain everything.

   Q3-sales.xlsx has 2,000+ rows and I'm lost. Can you explain it simply?

Keep the app open while you work with the agent.

Connect your agent

The app connects agents for you (step 3). To do it by hand:

Agent	Setup
Claude Code	claude plugin marketplace add Nordup/askaboard-plugins, then claude plugin install askaboard@askaboard
Codex (ChatGPT desktop app or CLI)	codex plugin marketplace add Nordup/askaboard-plugins, then codex plugin add askaboard@askaboard
Claude Desktop (Chat tab)	Download askaboard.mcpb and double-click it
Cursor	Add Nordup/askaboard-plugins as a plugin marketplace, then install Askaboard
Any MCP client	Server URL http://127.0.0.1:47821/mcp, or the stdio command ~/.askaboard/bin/askaboard mcp

All the details are in Nordup/askaboard-plugins.

Run from source

Askaboard is an Electron app in apps/desktop/. It also runs on Linux from source.

git clone https://github.com/Nordup/askaboard.git
cd askaboard/space
npm install
npm run dev

npm run build type-checks and bundles the app. See apps/desktop/README.md for what the app does and how it is built.

For agents and contributors

• CONTRIBUTING.md tells how to run, check and send a change.
• AGENTS.md is the start for an AI agent that works in this repo: where things live, how to run them, and the rules.
• docs/ has the design docs, the plans and every product decision with its reason.

Folder	What it is
apps/desktop/	The app
apps/website/	The website
docs/	Design docs, plans, decisions and research
assets/brand/	Logo, icon and brand files
web/, server/	An earlier tutor app, paused

Feedback

Questions, ideas and bugs are welcome. Ask a question or share an idea in Discussions, report a bug in Issues, or email [email protected].

License

MIT. Askaboard uses open-source work by others; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.