{"slug": "nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace", "title": "Nash Is Now Open Source; Meet Your New AI Workspace", "summary": "Nash, an AI workspace developed by Backboard-io, is now open source. The release integrates image generation, document creation, and MCP support, including Google MCP, into a single connected experience. The project is available on GitHub for anyone to use, fork, or contribute to.", "body_md": "Big news: **Nash is now open source.**\n\nYou can find the repo here 👉 [github.com/Backboard-io/nash](https://github.com/Backboard-io/nash)\n\nNash started as an internal tool to make AI actually usable day-to-day — not a chat window bolted onto a model, but a real workspace. As of this release, it's open for anyone to use, fork, self-host, contribute to, or build on top of.\n\nAlongside open-sourcing the project, we're also shipping a major release that pulls Nash's features into a single, connected experience. Here's what's new.\n\nImage generation is now integrated end-to-end inside Nash.\n\nGo from a rough idea → a first draft → iterations → a finished image without ever leaving the conversation. No context switching, no copying prompts between tools, no losing your thread.\n\nCreate, iterate, and keep working from the same experience.\n\nWhether you're turning an idea into a draft or generating a document as part of a larger workflow, Nash can now carry that process through from request to finished output.\n\nAsk for a PDF, a spec doc, a Word file, a code file — and Nash treats it as a first-class output rather than a side effect of chat.\n\nThis release adds support for **MCP (Model Context Protocol)**, including **Google MCP**, expanding what Nash can access and work with as part of your workflows.\n\nInstead of keeping your AI isolated from the rest of your work, MCP gives Nash a way to connect with the systems around it — the tools, data, and services you already use every day.\n\nIf you've been waiting for an assistant that actually plugs into your stack instead of living beside it, this is the update for you. And since Nash is open source, you can wire up your own MCP servers, extend the integrations, or contribute new ones back to the project.\n\nEver generated the perfect image and then lost it three conversations later? Same.\n\nNash now has a **Library** where your generated images are stored automatically, giving you one place to browse and access previous creations directly. Nothing to configure — it just works.\n\nThis release is about making Nash feel less like a collection of AI features and more like one connected workspace:\n\nAnd now, **all of it is open source.** You can read the code, self-host it, extend it, or ship a fork of your own.\n\nWe'd love your help shaping where Nash goes next:\n\nAsk for something. Create it. Connect the tools you already use. Come back to your work later.\n\nSay hello to your new AI workspace. 👋", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/jon_at_backboardio/nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace-29d8", "published_at": "2026-08-21 14:48:59+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-21 15:15:32.036542+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Nash", "Backboard-io", "GitHub", "Google MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/nash-is-now-open-source-meet-your-new-ai-workspace.jsonld"}}