OpenResearch

OpenResearch describes itself as a local-first workspace for research agents. It turns Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode or Cursor into agents that review literature, form hypotheses, run experiments and produce research artifacts, with each research direction getting its own agent session and an isolated git worktree. Experiments are tracked in a git-native tree where every run receives an immutable archive of the commit it ran from, and logs, diffs, results and artifacts stay attached to the work that produced them. An autoresearch mode runs the whole loop on its own: propose an idea, change code, launch an experiment, inspect the evidence, decide what to try next. The same committed snapshot can execute locally, over SSH next to remote GPUs, or on Slurm, Kubernetes, Ray, Hugging Face Jobs, Modal, Tinker and the project's managed compute. Installation is a shell script that provides the orx CLI; orx up opens a dashboard on 127.0.0.1 backed by a local SQLite store, and nothing is published unless you choose to. Official builds send coarse opt-out usage events that exclude code, prompts and paths; macOS 11+ is supported and Windows is in beta.