open-cowork — security grade SAFE, quality 68/100

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 68/100

No red flags found in any of the 11 categories — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

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About open-cowork

🚀 Open Cowork: Your Personal AI Agent Desktop App • Open Source Claude Cowork • One-Click Install 中文文档 • Features • Demo • Downloads • Quick Start • Skills Library Open Cowork is a free, open-source AI agent desktop application for Windows and macOS. It wraps Claude Code, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, and other AI models into a user-friendly GUI with one-click installation — no coding required. Key capabilities include VM-level sandbox isolation (WSL2 on Windows, Lima on macOS), a built-in Skills system for generating PPTX, DOCX, XLSX, and PDF documents, MCP (Model Context Protocol)

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Quick Facts

Stars2,142
Forks291
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryMCP Server
LicenseMIT
Quality Score67.5844122503688/100
Open Issues93
Last Updated2026-09-14
Created2026-01-13
Platformsclaude-code, cli, mcp, node
Est. Tokens~18k

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with open-cowork for enhanced workflows:

  • open-claude-cowork — semantic(0.64)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop+shared_platform (62%)
  • BitFun — semantic(0.29)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (60%)
  • goodable — semantic(0.20)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (57%)
  • eigent — semantic(0.74)+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (49%)

open-cowork alternative? Top 6 similar tools

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is open-cowork?

open-cowork is Open-source AI agent desktop app for Windows & macOS. One-click install Claude Code, MCP tools, and Skills — with sandbox isolation, multi-model support, and Feishu/Slack integration.. It is categorized as a MCP Server with 2.1k GitHub stars.

What programming language is open-cowork written in?

open-cowork is primarily written in TypeScript. It covers topics such as ai-agent, ai-coding, ai-tools.

How do I install or use open-cowork?

You can find installation instructions and usage details in the open-cowork GitHub repository at github.com/OpenCoworkAI/open-cowork. The project has 2.1k stars and 291 forks, indicating an active community.

What license does open-cowork use?

open-cowork is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.

What are the best alternatives to open-cowork?

The top alternatives to open-cowork on Agent Skills Hub include ouroboros, CodePilot, claude-code-plugins-plus-skills. Each offers a different approach to the same problem space — compare them side-by-side by stars, quality score, and community activity.

How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, covering 11 red-flag categories including credential harvesting, data exfiltration, and curl | sh installers. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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