open-cowork
Open-source AI agent desktop app for Windows & macOS. One-click install Claude Code, MCP tools, and Skills — with sandbox isolation, multi-model support, and Feishu/Slack integration.
About open-cowork
Open Cowork is a free, open-source AI agent desktop application for Windows and macOS. It wraps Claude Code, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, and other AI models into a user-friendly GUI with one-click installation — no coding required. Key capabilities include VM-level sandbox isolation (WSL2 on Windows, Lima on macOS), a built-in Skills system for generating PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, and PDF documents, MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration for connecting to browsers, Notion, and other desktop apps, GUI…
Open Cowork is an open-source implementation of Claude Cowork, with one-click installers for Windows and macOS—no coding required.
It provides a sandboxed workspace where AI can manage files, generate professional outputs (PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, etc.) through our built-in Skills system, and connect to desktop apps via MCP (browser, Notion, etc.) for better collaboration.
open-cowork is an open-source project written primarily in TypeScript, with 2.0k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in August 2026.
brew install --cask --no-quarantine open-coworkopen-cowork vs. the alternatives
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| open-coworkthis listing | 2.0k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
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| openinterpreter | 68k | Rust | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| jcode | 18k | Rust | MIT | Open source |
| Skill_Seekers | 15k | Python | MIT | Open source |
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