OpenResearch

The local-first harness & workspace for research agents.

Get started

We recommend using the OpenResearch desktop app. Download it for your platform:

• macOS
• Windows (Beta)
• Linux: x86_64 · ARM64

curl -LsSf https://openresearch.sh/install.sh | sh
orx up

orx up opens the local dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:4791.

On a managed Mac, device-management policies may block the CLI installed by install.sh because it is not yet signed. Use the signed and notarized desktop app instead. You can also install orx for your terminal from the app's Settings → Updates → Install the orx command.

Create an account at openresearch.sh to receive email updates and use managed OpenResearch compute.

How it works

Use your favorite coding agent. OpenResearch works natively with Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, and Google Antigravity. You can also use a local model with OpenCode through LM Studio, oMLX, Ollama, or a custom endpoint.

Ground research hypotheses in the latest literature. OpenResearch integrates with alphaXiv, bioRxiv, and PubMed so agents can find relevant papers, develop informed hypotheses, and connect their experiments to existing research.

Choose your compute. Run experiments locally or use SSH, Slurm, Kubernetes, Modal, Tinker, Ray, Hugging Face Jobs, and managed OpenResearch compute.

Give agents a memory of every experiment. OpenResearch records every experiment in a local SQL database and keeps its logs, code, and artifacts on your machine so that agents can learn from past results and decide what to try next. The desktop app makes it easy to see what your agents have done and inspect the evidence behind each result.

Keep and own your research. Run entirely locally. We don't collect your code or agent traces. Your projects, conversations, experiments, logs, and artifacts stay on your machine, under your control.

Usage analytics

Official release builds send opt-out, coarse product analytics events and detailed agent feedback in the background tied to a random installation ID. Your code, prompts, file contents or paths, repository names, tokens, emails, or project and experiment identifiers are not collected. Anonymized token/message counts are used to identify which models are being used across OpenResearch and can be seen at https://openresearch.sh/rankings. Feedback reports from the agent are sent for bug reports, feature requests, and general frustrations about OpenResearch. Agents are instructed to sanitize reports to exclude any sensitive information about your research or code.

You can turn off all usage analytics and agent feedback in the desktop app's Settings or with orx telemetry off.