--- title: "We Are Open-Sourcing Commando.io: Server Automation Meets the LLM Era | DuoCircle" description: "DuoCircle is winding down the hosted Commando.io service and open-sourcing the code. Here is why we think pairing webhook-driven server recipes with an LLM is worth building in the open." image: "https://www.duocircle.com/images/og-default.png" canonical: "https://www.duocircle.com/blog/open-sourcing-commando-io-server-automation-meets-llms/" --- Quick Answer DuoCircle is open-sourcing Commando.io, the web-based server automation platform we acquired for its recipe engine and webhook-driven runbooks. We are winding down the hosted service and releasing the code so the community can self-host it and pair it with an LLM to turn static runbooks into adaptive automations. 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If you have used Commando.io, you know what it does: it is web-based SSH, reimagined. You add your servers (bare metal, virtual, or cloud), organize them into groups, and run versioned command containers we call Recipes across those groups. Every execution is stored and audited: who ran what, where, when, and why. Recipes can be written in bash, Terraform, Python, Ruby, Go, or Node.js, and triggered from the API, a GitHub push, the command line, or the iOS app. DuoCircle acquired Commando.io specifically for that engine: powerful automations and clean server management wrapped in an interface a human actually wants to use. We are not walking away from the technology. We are changing how it gets into your hands. Instead of a hosted account, you will be able to run the whole thing yourself, read every line of it, and bend it to your own infrastructure. ## Why open source, and why now Here is the honest version. Commando.io was built on an older PHP stack that needs an upgrade before it has a healthy second decade. We could do that work behind a closed door and keep it as an internal tool. We think it is more useful in the open. The reason is the part of Commando.io we are most excited about: it can catch a webhook and take action from it. That is the bridge between “something happened” and “do something about it.” We have run this pattern in production for years. A monitoring service like site24x7.com detects an outage and fires a webhook. Commando.io catches it and runs a Recipe: the runbook for that exact failure. No human paged at 3am to copy and paste commands from a wiki. The runbook just runs. Static runbooks are already a quietly amazing thing. But a static runbook only does what you wrote down in advance. It cannot read the actual error in the alert, decide that this outage is not quite like the one the runbook assumed, and adjust. An LLM can. ## The idea we want the community to run with Pair Commando.io’s webhook-to-recipe engine with an LLM and the static runbook becomes an adaptive one. The webhook still fires. But now the payload, the recent logs, and the server state can be handed to a model that decides which Recipe to run, fills in the variables, and explains its reasoning into the same audit trail Commando.io already keeps. The alert says “disk filling on the primary.” The model reads it, picks the cleanup Recipe, scopes it to the right server group, runs it, and writes down why. A human reviews the trail in the morning instead of living inside the incident. We have a strong hunch that someone is going to pair our server management with a model and build automations we have not thought of. We would rather hand over the keys and watch that happen than guess at it ourselves. The open-source release includes: - The full Recipe engine and the web interface. - Server grouping, tagging, and cloud import. - Centralized file storage with SCP distribution. - The complete audit trail. - The API, the CLI, and the iOS app. - A library of automations to experiment with and use as a starting point. The PHP stack needs modernizing. That is a feature of an open-source release, not a bug: it is exactly the kind of work a community does well, and it is the first good first issue. ## We still use it every day This is not a product we are abandoning because it stopped earning its keep. Commando.io is still our tier-one triage agent for a long list of legacy services. When a script needs to run on demand, Commando.io runs it. That includes billing automations and, importantly, it lets our tier-one support team do things that used to require a shell and elevated permissions: unbanning an IP, restarting a stuck process, pulling a diagnostic. The Recipe is written and reviewed once by someone senior. After that, a tier-one expert clicks a button, and the audit trail records exactly what happened. Nobody hands out root to run one safe command. That is the quiet power of the thing. It turns “you need shell access and we trust you not to break anything” into “here is a reviewed, audited button.” We are not giving that up. We are giving everyone else the ability to build their own version of it. ## What this means for you If you are currently on the hosted Commando.io service, nothing breaks today. The hosted service is retired on July 31, 2026, and the open-source code lands in mid-August 2026\. Export your Recipes and files before July 31 so you have everything you need to move to a self-hosted instance once the code is public. The practical details (the wind-down timeline, how to export your Recipes and files, and where to get the code) live in our support article: [Commando.io is moving to open source: what hosted users need to know](/resources/commando-io-open-source-migration). If you have ever wanted to wire your monitoring straight into your runbooks, or you want to be the person who pairs server automation with a model and shows the rest of us what that looks like, this release is for you. We expect to publish the code in mid-August 2026\. Watch this space for the repository link. ## Topics commandoautomationopen sourceserver managementdevops ![Brad Slavin](https://media.mailhop.org/dmarcreport/images/team/brad-slavin.jpg) Brad Slavin General Manager General Manager at DuoCircle. Product strategy and commercial lead across the email security portfolio. ## Secure your email infrastructure Protect, authenticate, and deliver. Contact our team to find the right solution. 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