openwork, the open-source alternative to Claude Cowork.

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In this article, we review Openwork. You will learn:

What is Openwork?
Features

What is Openwork?

OpenWork is a free, open-source desktop app made for sharing AI workflows. It is an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork and Codex for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Add one OpenWork MCP to Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, or another compatible agent and reuse the same skills, MCPs, and connected services across your tools, teammates, and machines. Create something once, share it with coworkers or friends, or keep it for yourself.

The desktop app is there when you want a dedicated workspace, but it is not required. You can use OpenWork from the agent you already have. For larger organizations, the admin interface lets you publish capabilities, manage access, and configure shared or per-user connections.

You can download Openwork here

Features

Chat on your files and tools
Claude and models
GPT-5, Gemini, Mistral, and local models
Browser automation
MCP gateway

and much more

I checked the docs for the browser automation and these are my findings:

How to use OpenWork to automate the built-in browser?

Computer-use in OpenWork currently works through the built-in OpenWork Browser. It does not yet mean full desktop control of Ubuntu, macOS, or Windows apps.OpenWork can open pages, click, fill forms, read page content, and take screenshots inside that browser. If you connect to a remote OpenWork server, the browser runs on that remote worker.Today, the supported path is the first-party OpenWork Browser extension.

Learn more about Browser Automation.

About me:

Hey, my name is Ramu Narasinga. Email: ramu.narasinga@gmail.com

I spent 3+ years studying OSS codebases and wrote 400+ articles on what makes the production-grade. Now I'm putting that into practice differently - instead of writing every fix myself, I run coding agents that do it.

How it works? Register your machine as a Runtime, point it at your repo. Agents pick up issues. write the fix, open the PR. You just review, they execute.