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Open Science Desktop — local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench for macOS, Windows & Linux. Open-source Claude Science desktop alternative built on Tauri + MCP + agent skills.
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Open Science Desktop is a local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench for macOS, Windows and Linux, positioned as an open-source Claude Science desktop alternative. It is built on Tauri with MCP and agent skills, and ships AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md files.
You want a cross-platform, open-source desktop research workbench that runs locally and works with different models via MCP.
Use it to
- Run a local AI research workbench on your desktop
- Use MCP servers and agent skills in research workflows
- Replace Claude Science with an open-source alternative
- Work reproducibly with local-first research tooling
For Researchers wanting open-source, local AI research tooling
- Role
- mcp-server
- Language
- TypeScript
- Licence
- custom (licence file present)
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- 201
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- Last push
- 2026-09-17
- Latest release
- v0.1.0 · 2026-07-06
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