OpenResearch

The local-first workspace for research agents and autoresearch.

Turn Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode into research agents that can review literature, develop hypotheses, run experiments, and produce research artifacts.

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Get started

Download the local desktop app from openresearch.sh/download, or install the CLI on macOS or Linux:

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

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

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

Built for research agents

	OpenResearch gives you
Parallel exploration	Give each research direction an independent agent session and isolated git worktree.
Reproducible experiments	Track variants in a git-native experiment tree; every run receives an immutable archive of its recorded commit.
Evidence in context	Keep logs, diffs, files, results, and artifacts tied to the work that produced them.
Your choice of agent	Use Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode, with the harness and model selected per session.
Your choice of compute	Run locally, on your own infrastructure, or with managed OpenResearch compute.
Local ownership	Keep projects, conversations, experiments, runs, logs, code, and artifacts on your machine.

Autoresearch

OpenResearch can run the full loop autonomously: propose an idea, change the code, launch an experiment, inspect the evidence, and decide what to try next. Multiple agents can explore different directions in parallel while the experiment tree preserves their lineage.

Run anywhere

The same committed source snapshot can run locally, over SSH, or on Slurm, Kubernetes, Ray, Hugging Face Jobs, Modal, Tinker, and managed OpenResearch compute. Publishing the repository is not required.

Run the workspace next to remote GPUs while using the browser on your laptop:

orx up --remote user@host

SSH config aliases and custom ports are supported. The remote service binds to loopback and has no application-level authentication, so other users on that host can reach it.

CLI and agent integration

Install the OpenResearch skill into supported coding agents:

orx install-skills

Common commands:

orx projects
orx project view <project-id>
orx runs <project-id>
orx logs <run-id>
orx exp run <experiment-id>
orx discover keyword <query>
orx paper <arxiv-id-or-doi>

Run orx --help or orx <command> --help for the complete interface.

Local by default

OpenResearch runs on 127.0.0.1 with a local SQLite store. Creating a project or launching a run does not publish your code. An openresearch.sh account is only used for service-owned capabilities such as organizations and managed compute.

Usage analytics

Official release builds send opt-out, coarse usage events tied to a random installation ID. They do not include code, prompts, file contents or paths, repository names, tokens, emails, or project and experiment identifiers.

orx telemetry off
orx telemetry status
orx <command> --no-telemetry

Source and development builds do not send analytics.