open-science: Open Science Desktop — local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench for macOS, Windows & Linux

by ai4s-research · MCP Server · ★ 2.1k

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How to install open-science

git clone https://github.com/ai4s-research/open-science

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 63/100

None of the 42 rules matched — no credential harvesting, no data exfiltration, no curl-pipe-shell installer. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars2,076
Forks229
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryMCP Server
Quality Score63/100
Open Issues26
Last Updated2026-11-05
Created2026-07-03
Platformsclaude-code, mcp, node
Est. Tokens~17k

About open-science

Open Science An open AI workbench for scientists. Your research partner for rigorous science. An open-source, local-first, model-agnostic, reproducible AI research workbench — an open alternative to Claude Science and similar AI-for-science products. Not a chat box: a workbench that ties literature, code, figures, reports, and review into one auditable, reproducible workflow.

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    Rent the model. Own everything else. Free, open-source AI app for real work.

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    让 Claude Science 的推理走自选的第三方 API(DeepSeek / 通义千问 / 任意 OpenAI 兼容端点),保留工具调用·Skill·MCP·代码执行,含本地虚拟登录跳过。macOS 菜单栏 ap

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. 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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