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.
News
- 2026-11-07 — 🧠 OpenCode 2, and more from every agent. The bundled runtime moves to OpenCode 2, with your OpenCode 1 history backed up first; a model's reasoning shows in the thread; ACP agents bring their own slash commands, context usage and task list; DeepSeek Harness joins the catalog. Plus sharper CJK text in terminals and a window that keeps its size. (v0.7.2)
- 2026-10-29 — 🖥️ Terminals that stay, agents side by side. Terminals now run outside the app and survive updates, relaunches and crashes; Claude Code, Codex and pi run as conversations beside OpenCode, and a session moves between terminal and conversation in one click. Plus several accounts per agent, theme variants, new models on slow networks, and Chinese punctuation that goes in on the first press. (v0.7.1)
- 2026-10-26 — 🌐 The workbench from any browser, and agents that talk to each other. Splits, Screens and terminals now work over Remote Access, on a phone too, with name-and-password accounts; define your own Specialists with their own instructions, skills, connectors and model; and agents read and message each other's conversations and terminals through
osd. Plus queued messages while the agent works, and a no-root Linux install. (v0.7.0)
- 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).
Contents
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.
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