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openwork

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

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2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
24.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

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

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by 3-hour interval2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2026-01-14 04:55:04 UTC to 2026-01-15 18:26:02 UTC.

012026-01-14 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsJan 14, 03:002026-01-14 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-14 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-14 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-14 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-14 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-14 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-14 21:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsJan 14, 21:002026-01-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 03:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 06:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 09:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 12:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 15:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-01-15 18:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-15 21:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 15, 18:00

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Jan 14, 03:002026-01-14 03:00:00 UTC2026-01-14 06:00:00 UTC110
Jan 14, 06:002026-01-14 06:00:00 UTC2026-01-14 09:00:00 UTC000
Jan 14, 09:002026-01-14 09:00:00 UTC2026-01-14 12:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 14, 18:002026-01-14 18:00:00 UTC2026-01-14 21:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 15, 06:002026-01-15 06:00:00 UTC2026-01-15 09:00:00 UTC000
Jan 15, 09:002026-01-15 09:00:00 UTC2026-01-15 12:00:00 UTC000
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Jan 15, 18:002026-01-15 18:00:00 UTC2026-01-15 21:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

hi hn, i built openwork, an open-source, local-first system inspired by claude cowork. it’s a native desktop app that runs on top of opencode (opencode.ai). it’s basically an alternative gui for opencode, which (at least until now) has been more focused on technical folks. the original seed for openwork was simple: i have a home server, and i wanted my wife and i to be able to run privileged workflows. things like controlling home assistant, or deploying custom web apps (e.g. our customs recipe app recipes.benjaminshafii.com), legal torrents, without living in a terminal. our initial setup was running the opencode web server directly and sharing credentials to it. that worked, but i found the web ui unreliable and very unfriendly for non-technical users. the goal with openwork is to bring the kind of workflows i’m used to running in the c
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li into a gui, while keeping a very deep extensibility mindset. ideally this grows into something closer to an obsidian-style ecosystem, but for agentic work. some core principles i had in mind: - open by design: no black boxes, no hosted lock-in. everything runs locally or on your own servers. (models don’t run locally yet, but both opencode and openwork are built with that future in mind.) - hyper extensible: skills are installable modules via a skill/package manager, using the native opencode plugin ecosystem. - non-technical by default: plans, progress, permissions, and artifacts are surfaced in the ui, not buried in logs. you can already try it: - there’s an unsigned dmg - or you can clone the repo, install deps, and if you already have opencode running it should work right away it’s very alpha, lots of rough edges. i’d love feedback on what feels the roughest or most confusing. happy to answer questions.
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