Open Science Desktop

Local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench for macOS, Windows & Linux.

Formerly Open Science. An open-source desktop alternative to Claude Science and similar AI-for-science workbenches — built with Tauri, MCP, agent skills, and reproducible artifacts. It connects agents, notebooks, files, figures, reports, runs, and review into one auditable desktop workflow.

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News

• 2026-10-04 — 🖱️ Computer Use, terminals and editors. The agent can now operate desktop apps like ImageJ, Origin and instrument software; panes hold terminals, files and a code editor, where Claude Code / Codex resume after a relaunch; plus find (⌘F), jump to any session or project (⌘J), and Linux ARM64 for DGX Spark. (v0.6.0)
• 2026-08-18 — 🖥️ Runs without a screen, and the terminal command comes with it. osd server starts the whole workbench — workspace, agent runtime, and the same web UI — on a machine with no display, and osd session send … --wait drives it from a script or another agent. osd ships inside the desktop installer and puts itself on your PATH on first launch; on a server the archive needs nothing installed. Models, keys and approvals are all configurable from the terminal (osd model, osd auth, osd approval).
• 2026-08-13 — 🔌 Speaks the Agent Client Protocol, both directions. Drive Codex, Gemini CLI, Claude Code, or any other ACP agent from inside this app — with its own models, history, and your MCP connectors — or drive Open Science itself from Zed, JetBrains, or Neovim. (v0.4.0)
• 2026-08-01 — 🗂️ Projects, memory, and full history. Group sessions into named projects (import an existing repo in place, no copying), give the agent persistent global and project memory, and reach every past conversation through a searchable history with archive, restore, and export. (v0.3.1)
• 2026-07-24 — 🪟 Split-pane tiling. Tile sessions side by side, drag panes to re-dock them, keep several independent Screens, and run a different model in each pane. (v0.3.0)
• 2026-07-21 — 🌐 Access from anywhere — even your phone. A token-authenticated gateway serves the real desktop UI to a CLI, a browser on your LAN, or your phone (loopback by default; LAN is opt-in). Start a run at your desk and read the finished figure and report on your phone. (v0.2.3)
• 2026-07-21 — 🧭 Browser control. The agent can drive your own Chrome — profile and logins intact — to read the live web the way you do, or an isolated private browser on demand. (v0.2.3)
• 2026-07-09 — 🎉 #1 on ResearchClawBench. Open Science Desktop ranks #1 by scored-task average on ResearchClawBench, an end-to-end benchmark for autonomous scientific research agents (Pass@1 leaderboard).

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Contents

• ✨ What it does
• 🎬 See it in action
• 🧪 Current capabilities
• 🔌 Skills and connectors
• 📦 Install
• 🖥️ Headless & CLI (osd)
• 🚀 Build from source
• 🔒 Safety and privacy
• 🗂️ Repository layout
• 📌 Status
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📖 Citation
• ⚖️ License

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