docs(station): correct the open-source claim and adopt the approved positioning - #427
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…ositioning The page said "Station runs on Defang's cloud. It is open source, so you can also run it on your own infrastructure." That is not accurate: DefangLabs/station is a private repository with no LICENSE. The open-source, self-hostable artefact is Agent Box (defangdevs/agent-box, MIT), which Station is built on. The page now says so, under its own heading, so the self-host path is still findable. Also brings the page in line with the positioning merged in station ADR-0009 and defang-global's constitution 1.2.0: - Leads with the tagline "Bring your agent. Run it anywhere." - Describes what Station actually is — Claude Code or Codex on an always-on machine, connected to the customer's own Anthropic or OpenAI account — rather than a generic "persistent cloud workspace". - Drops "keeps running when you close your laptop", retired copy per strategy/language-style-guide.md: it sells absence, while customers value being able to reach and direct the agent. - Names the Deploy handoff concretely: dev, staging or production on the provider you choose.
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What & why
docs.defang.io/docs/stationis live right now saying:That is not accurate.
DefangLabs/stationis a private repository with no LICENSE file. The open-source, self-hostable artefact is Agent Box (defangdevs/agent-box, MIT, public), which Station is built on.The fix keeps the self-host path findable rather than deleting it — Agent Box now gets its own "Running it yourself" section naming the licence and what you can run it on.
Also brought in line with the merged positioning
The page predated
DefangLabs/stationADR-0009 and defang-global constitution 1.2.0, both merged 2026-09-09:strategy/language-style-guide.md: it sells absence, and early Station customers value the opposite — being able to reach and direct the agent. It is also the single most commoditised line in the category.The in-development
:::infonote stays; Station has not shipped.Proof
npm run build(with the Go prebuild) succeeds, and the rendered page is correct:Two pre-existing conditions, verified identical on
mainrather than assumed: a@theme/CodeBlocktypecheck error needing generated Docusaurus types, and two broken anchors on/docs/concepts/mcpand/docs/providers/aws. Neither is on a page this PR touches.Risk & rollback
One documentation page. Revert the single commit.
If
DefangLabs/stationis later given a licence, the "Running it yourself" section should be revisited — the claim can then be made directly about Station rather than only about the runtime underneath.