OpenResearch

The local-first workspace for research agents and autoresearch.

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

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Get started

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

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

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

On a managed Mac (for example, a work computer), use the macOS download above instead. Device-management policies may block the CLI that install.sh installs because it is not yet signed. The app is signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple. To use orx in your terminal, click Install under Install the orx command in the app's Settings → Updates, or run (adjusting the path if the app is not in /Applications):

/Applications/OpenResearch.app/Contents/MacOS/orx install-cli

Either way, orx is linked into ~/.local/bin, with a hint to add it to your PATH if needed. If you already ran install.sh, remove ~/.cargo/bin/orx first and open a new terminal.

On Windows, use the beta download above after installing Git for Windows. It installs for your account, with no administrator prompt. The installer isn't signed yet, so Windows may say "Windows protected your PC": choose More info → Run anyway.

On Linux, the desktop app is an AppImage for x86_64 or ARM64. Keep it somewhere you can write to, such as ~/Applications, so it can update itself, then change to that directory, run chmod +x OpenResearch-*.AppImage, and open it. See Linux for requirements.

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

	OpenResearch gives you
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, Cursor, or Google Antigravity, 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.

Coding agents may also file product feedback with orx feedback when you hit a bug, wish for a feature, or get frustrated with OpenResearch. Each report is a short description of the workflow problem. Bug reports include as much detail as possible to reproduce a failure while omitting sensitive information. Like analytics, reports are sent only from official release builds. They are linked to your account when you are logged in and turned off by orx telemetry off. The --no-telemetry flag covers only the command it is passed to.