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🧰OpenWork

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The open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (powered by opencode)

⭐ Very popular: 22k stars, gaining about 888 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2026 launched this year

delivery product

language TypeScript

license Other

momentum

total stars 22k

stars added last week +888

HN peak 231 pts 7mo ago

binary downloads 625 total · GitHub releases

commits / week 117 cooling · -30% vs prior mo

issues closed 75% ~3d to close, median

contributors 71

release cadence weekly

last activity today

durability

backing VC-backed Y Combinator (Different AI)

openness source-available Fair Source License

bus factor 1 solo

top-author share 55% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 2k/mo (+31%/mo) · + 15k total since PR#26

why it's a big deal

It translates OpenCode-style agent workflows into a UI that non-developers can actually use day to day.
Host mode and client mode let teams run locally for privacy, or connect to remote OpenCode servers for shared infra.
Built-in permission surfacing and auditability make it easier to ship agentic workflows in real organizations.

under the hood

Built as a native desktop app using Tauri and Rust, with a TypeScript UI and OpenCode running under the hood.
Uses SSE event streaming to show realtime plan updates, progress, and permission requests.
Extends via OpenCode plugins and skills, managed through opencode.json at project or global scope.

our take from PR#26, 2026-01-28

star history

PR#26 7k 2026-01-28
now 22k + 15k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Deep in the understory, shipping hard, still flying under the radar.

+26 understory score output 100 · clout 74

output, commits & releases
clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

PR#26 2026-01-28 above the radar

Open source “Claude Work” for knowledge workers

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