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.
Running sandboxed coding agents from a desktop GUI without command-line setup.
You work on Linux — installers are provided for Windows and macOS only.
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 2.2k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.
brew install --cask --no-quarantine open-coworkopen-cowork vs. the alternatives
All 49 alternatives →| Record | Stars | Pricing | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| open-coworkthis listing | 2.2k | TypeScript | MIT | Open source |
| OpenCode | 211k | — | MIT | Open source |
| gemini-cli | 107k | TypeScript | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
| Zed | 91k | Rust | GPL-3.0-or-later | Open source |
| OpenHands | 89k | — | MIT | Open source |
| Cline | 69k | — | Apache-2.0 | Open source |
