FlatRun turns one server into a self-operating platform: it deploys apps, terminates SSL, manages DNS, runs backups, and schedules jobs, with a full API behind all of it.

Most hosting panels trap you twice. Your data goes into named Docker volumes you cannot easily inspect, and your setup goes into a database only the panel understands. FlatRun inverts that. Every app is a directory holding a compose file with its data and config beside it. The panel reads and writes those files, and the files are the source of truth. Delete FlatRun tomorrow and every app keeps running under plain Docker Compose.

Agents are plain markdown files. The runtime executes them through governed tools, where policy decides what runs freely, what needs your sign-off, and what never runs at all. The same tool set is exposed over a standard MCP server for external agents.

A single Go binary with a web UI, a CLI, and a GitHub Action. Single-host by design, which is a real ceiling and an honest one.