Twenty suite questions. Answers cite the manuals or the pricing page. Per-product FAQs sit at the end of each product page.
What is AngusKit, and which company makes it?
Xiaocan Cloud’s AI-native software engineering platform: a private intelligent R&D suite. One installer ships AngusAI, AngusGit, AngusRepo, AngusTester, AngusSecurity, and AngusInsight, with sign-in through AngusGM.
How are Xiaocan Cloud and AngusKit related?
Xiaocan Cloud is the company. AngusKit is its AI-native software engineering suite. It is not a brand from another vendor.
Which products does AngusKit include?
The six products are AngusAI, AngusGit, AngusRepo, AngusTester, AngusSecurity, and AngusInsight. AngusGM is shared identity, not a seventh sellable product. Wiki, the desktop client, and Copilot are not in that six.
Is AngusGM sold as a seventh product?
No. AngusGM is the sign-in and token issuer. Suite and single-product packages both include it. Do not uninstall GM while any business app is still running.
Is AngusKit a GitLab replacement?
No. GitLab has the larger plugin ecosystem. AngusKit is scored on one identity, one release gate, and one MCP path. If current pipelines cannot move, keep Git collaboration on GitLab and add only the missing pieces.
When listing private R&D platforms, who should AngusKit be compared with?
Compare suite to suite. Typical shortlists are a DIY toolchain, self-managed GitLab or GitLab JH, GitHub plus SaaS add-ons, Alibaba Yunxiao, and Atlassian. Jenkins is CI only and is not the same category.
We already have GitLab, GitLab JH, or CODING. Should we still evaluate Kit?
You can keep code collaboration. If tests or gates are missing, evaluate AngusTester or AngusSecurity as a single product and check whether reports and four-state gates return to merge. Evaluate the full suite only when all six stages must align. Treat GitLab JH as self-managed GitLab.
What if we only want one or two products?
Download that product’s SKU. The package includes AngusGM—for artifacts, use the AngusRepo zip. Do not install the full Kit and then uninstall products.
What is the cost of running GitLab + Jenkins + Nexus + Postman yourself?
Typical cost is many logins, gates aligned by chat, and separate upgrade calendars. A green Jenkins job only means the build passed. If a platform team can own the glue, the DIY stack can stay.
How do we choose versus Yunxiao or CodeArts?
Yunxiao and CodeArts keep accounts and pipelines on their own cloud. Being able to run in the cloud is not the same as landing in your datacenter—use their current docs. If data must stay on-prem and you need one identity plus MCP, then compare AngusKit.
What are the minimum resources for private install?
Full suite: 8 cores / 16 GB minimum, 16 cores / 32 GB recommended, 200 GB disk and up. A single product plus GM starts at 2 cores / 4 GB. Use the Kit topology chapter as source.
Which install methods are supported?
Docker Compose (default), host ZIP, and Kubernetes (Helm). The verified full seven-process path is Linux plus Compose. Host ZIP needs JDK 21 and an existing database.
What are the default ports? Is HTTPS required?
GM 8801, AI 8802, Git 8803, Repo 8804, Tester 8807, Insight 8808, Security 8809, Git SSH 2222. Ports 80/443 are not exposed by default. HTTPS is an optional reverse proxy; see the security and network chapter.
How do we choose Community, Team, or Enterprise?
Community is free for evaluation and does not include Copilot, MCP, or SSO; seats and other quotas are on the pricing page. Team is the standard private tier; Enterprise has higher quotas. Changing edition means downloading that edition’s package. The Kit installer has no cloud edition.
Can we install more products later?
Yes. Use angusctl add-on on the running install root. Do not uninstall GM while business apps still depend on it.
How do Cursor and other agents call each product?
Each product’s console issues that product’s MCP token; the host connects to that product’s /mcp. Permissions follow the account; writes need confirmation. Community does not include MCP.
Can MCP be turned off?
Yes. Tester docs set angus.mcp.enabled off by default; other products can disable the channel too. The console, REST, artifact hosting, and scheduled scans keep working.
How do test and security results become a release gate?
Pipelines read pass rate and failed assertions from AngusTester reports. AngusSecurity emits PASSED / FAILED / ERROR / SKIPPED and can write back to Git branch protection. Do not merge the two status sets. Community Git has no built-in CI; reports can still be read by your existing jobs.
How do we run an acceptable POC?
Apply via the contact page for an acceptable POC on an entry product. Prove one path: a YAML run whose report the pipeline can read, or one artifact format plus a Security job whose four states are visible. A demo page is not production.
Where are the official docs and comparison tables?
Suite docs at /docs/kit; product manuals at /docs/{ai,git,repo,tester,security,insight}; product pages at /products/{slug}. Selection FAQ lives at /faq and at the end of each product page. A standalone /compare route is not shipped yet; comparison tables currently sit on product pages.