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Map, search and understand your data.

Regixo is a free, local-first data catalog: it scans your databases’ structure (names and types — never the rows), maps every dataset and column, flags what’s personal, and serves it to your team and your AI tools. It runs on your own machine and works anywhere. These docs walk you through it hands-on, so you can follow along.

In the EU? Regixo can also draft and keep your GDPR Article 30 RoPA and DORA register — an optional module you turn to only if your company must keep those records. See the EU compliance module →

New here? See the whole picture first Before you read a thing, see the whole journey on one page → — every step visualized, who does what, and where the road forks: just the catalog, or add the optional EU compliance record.

How to use these docs Do each step for real. Every action comes two ways — the sentence you say to the coding agent already open in your project, and the command it runs — and the switch at the top right of each page picks which one leads. Both are always there. Where a step asks for a judgment (a lawful basis, a DORA contract), we explain the options and how to decide — we never pretend the tool, or your agent, decides for you.

The fastest way in — a walkthrough Want to see it done rather than read about it? The Walkthroughs follow real people through a live session, screen by screen: Your first session (the catalog, ~15 min). In the EU? The compliance team walks the optional claim → fill → sign. Or see the whole journey.

Start with the catalog

The data catalog is the product — everyone who runs Regixo gets it, free, forever. If your company must keep EU compliance records, there’s an optional module on top. Pick where to start:

everyonefree

Build the data catalog

Install, connect your real databases and SaaS, read and correct the map, and automate it — by talking to your coding agent, or by typing. A complete product on its own.

Install & first run →

EU onlyoptional

Add EU compliance

For EU companies that must keep a GDPR Article 30 RoPA or DORA register: understand the draft Regixo built from your map, make the legal calls only a human can make, sign, and keep it current.

The EU compliance module →

You might only ever need the catalog The map is a complete product on its own. The compliance module is for EU companies that must keep a GDPR RoPA or DORA register — add it only if you need it.

How you use Regixo

Regixo is a command-line tool in your project. Two ways to drive it — the same commands, in the same shell — plus a local dashboard once the scan has run.

Say it to your coding agent — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, any tool that can run a terminal command. Tell it “set Regixo up in this project” and it runs the commands, reads the output, and reports back. There is nothing to install and nothing to register — the agent is already open in your project. This is the default, and it is how most of these pages read. Work with your agent →
Or type the commands yourself — every step is a real regixo command, headless and scriptable. Always available, never required; every page carries both. The command reference →

The dashboard. Once the scan has run, a local web portal reads what it produced and lets you correct it, with no commands at all. Browse and correct your map in the free portal; your compliance team claims, fills and signs in the compliance portal.

Optional, and often confused with the above An assistant can also read your catalog and answer questions about it — “where do we hold email addresses?” — over MCP. That is a separate, read-only surface with a real one-time registration, and it is not needed to use Regixo. It cannot scan, correct a flag, or change the record; there is no write tool to call. Don’t confuse it with the agent that operates Regixo above, which runs the ordinary commands and changes plenty. Use an AI agent →

Prerequisites

Node.js 22.18 or newer — the only requirement for the engineer side. Check with node -v.
No Docker, no account, no sign-up before your first map.
A connection string (or read-only credentials) for at least one database — or a CSV of your schema if you can’t reach one yet.
The compliance side needs no install — it all happens in the browser from a claim link.

npx regixo start works today — pre-release 0.1.x builds publish to npm (latest 0.1.16). Regixo has not launched yet (it is pre-1.0). These docs use regixo … throughout.

What you end up with

A searchable data map — datasets, columns, owners, lineage, and which columns look like personal data — free, forever.
EU compliance module (optional): a drafted GDPR Article 30 RoPA and (if in scope) a DORA register, stamped DRAFT until a human confirms the legal fields.
EU compliance module (optional): after a human signs, a signed, offline-verifiable official record that stays correct all year.

Straight about what’s built Some of the product is still on the way. Where a step points at something not yet shipped — a connector, the sealed DORA filing package, a qualified timestamp — the docs say so plainly. The full list lives in Data handling & what’s built.

The whole journey