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

• 2026-07-21 — 🌐 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
• 🚀 Build from source
• 🔒 Safety and privacy
• 🗂️ Repository layout
• 📌 Status
• 🤝 Contributing
• 📖 Citation
• ⚖️ License

What it does

Runs the whole research loop — from a broad direction to a finished paper: exploration, literature survey, hypothesis, experiment code, analysis, figures, and write-up, in one continuous, auditable session.

• Autonomous research agents — the bundled ai4s-agent chains specialist skills end to end (explore → survey → experiment → write), and each stage drops a real, inspectable artifact into your workspace, not just a chat reply.
• Everything traces back — figures, tables, reports, notebooks, and run outputs link to the exact code, inpu