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Ikenga

What is Ikenga?

Documentation is under active construction. This page is a placeholder while the site is scaffolded.

Ikenga is your personal AI-augmented workspace — a seat of strength brought to life through consecration, addressed daily, holding what your right hand has earned.

It’s a desktop shell that hosts independently installable mini-apps (pkgs), driven by a pluggable AI engine (your Chi), and controllable from the terminal via the Iyke CLI. The shell itself is industry-neutral; verticals enter through pkgs and through scaffolding presets.

A short glossary you’ll meet again across these docs:

  • Ikenga — the workspace itself. A personal seat of strength.
  • Obi — the home of your workspace; the shell that holds your panes.
  • Chi — the AI engine that drives your workspace. One Chi at a time (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, …).
  • Iyke — the runtime CLI that lets any terminal or MCP client drive a running Obi.
  • Consecration — the first-run ritual that brings a new Ikenga to life.

This documentation covers:

  • Pkgs — the manifest-driven extension system that powers every mini-app.
  • Engines — pluggable Chi adapters; the default ships as a pkg so it updates independently of the shell.
  • mcp-iyke — the MCP server that exposes a running Obi as tools so any model can drive it.

Next: Install →

The Ikenga tradition is drawn from the Igbo people of southeastern Nigeria. Literary anchor: Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. Source deck: Ikenga.pptx. Full credits: forthcoming on the About / Lore page.