Show HN: TetherDust – Self-hosted AI Analytics Engineer (open source)

Category: infrastructure

Tags: ai-agent, sql-generation, analytics

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 7, Technical: 8, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

TetherDust is a self-hosted platform that uses AI agents to generate SQL queries, dashboards, and documentation from natural language, bridging codebase and database schemas via containerized MCP servers. It enforces read-only queries, RBAC, and audit logging, making it a novel combo of AI agent orchestration and analytics tooling. The project is interesting for its focus on safe, verifiable AI-driven data interaction within a self-hosted infrastructure.

Target audience: data engineers, backend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/mpospirit-apps/TetherDust · Python · AGPL-3.0 · 3 stars

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