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Openresearch (GitHub Repo)

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OpenResearch provides a local-first workspace that enables autonomous research agents to iterate on code, run experiments, and document results independently.
What: The platform orchestrates agents like Claude Code or Cursor to propose hypotheses, manage git-native experiment trees, and execute tasks across various compute environments including Kubernetes and Slurm.
Why it matters: By focusing on 'evidence in context'—tying logs, diffs, and results to specific commits—it creates a reproducible workflow for AI-driven scientific and technical discovery.
Takeaway: If you are running iterative experiments with AI coding agents, look at OpenResearch to track your 'experiment tree' locally.
Deep dive
  • Autoresearch Loop: Enables agents to autonomously propose ideas, modify code, and inspect outcomes.
  • Git-Native Experiments: Treats every experimental run as a tracked commit with an immutable archive of artifacts.
  • Compute Flexibility: Supports running workspaces locally, via SSH, or on distributed compute clusters like Slurm and Kubernetes.
  • Parallel Exploration: Supports branching research directions into isolated sessions to avoid cross-contamination of ideas.
Decoder
  • Worktree: A Git feature that allows multiple branches of a repository to be checked out simultaneously in different directories.
  • Local-First: A software architectural approach where data lives primarily on the user's machine, ensuring offline access and privacy.
Original article

OpenResearch

The local-first workspace for research agents and autoresearch.

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

Get started

Install the CLI on macOS or Linux, then launch OpenResearch:

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

On Windows, use the beta download after installing Git for Windows.

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

Connect a local model to use LM Studio, oMLX, Ollama, or a custom endpoint with OpenCode.

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

Built for research agents

  • 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, OpenCode, or Cursor, 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.

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