OpenResearch
A local-first workspace for research agents and autoresearch, with parallel experiments, isolated worktrees, evidence tracking, and a local dashboard.
OpenResearch turns Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or Cursor into research agents that can review literature, develop hypotheses, run experiments, and produce research artifacts. It is designed for local ownership: the workspace runs on 127.0.0.1 with a local SQLite store, and creating a project or launching a run does not publish your code. Each research direction can have its own agent session and isolated Git worktree. The experiment tree keeps variants and records each run as an immutable archive of its recorded commit, while logs, diffs, files, results, and artifacts stay tied to the work that produced them. OpenResearch can run locally, over SSH, or on supported compute backends; the README also describes managed OpenResearch compute. To try it, install the CLI on macOS or Linux and run orx up, which opens the local dashboard at http://127.0.0.1:4791. Windows support is marked beta and requires Git for Windows. The project documents connections to LM Studio, oMLX, Ollama, or a custom endpoint with OpenCode. Official release builds send opt-out coarse usage events tied to a random installation ID; the README says they do not include code, prompts, file contents or paths, repository names, tokens, emails, or project and experiment identifiers.