Show HN: OpenWork – an open-source alternative to Claude Cowork

An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork, powered by OpenCode

OpenWork is an extensible, open-source “Claude Work” style system for knowledge workers.

It’s a native desktop app that runs OpenCode under the hood, but presents it as a clean, guided workflow:

The goal: make “agentic work” feel like a product, not a terminal.

Download the dmg here https://github.com/different-ai/openwork/releases (or install from source below)

Knowledge workers don’t want to learn a CLI, fight config sprawl, or rebuild the same workflows in every repo. OpenWork is designed to be:

The folder picker uses the Tauri dialog plugin. Capability permissions are defined in:

If opkg is not installed globally, OpenWork falls back to:

Plugins are the native way to extend OpenCode. OpenWork now manages them from the Skills tab by reading and writing opencode.json.

You can still edit opencode.json manually; OpenWork uses the same format as the OpenCode CLI:

Source: HackerNews (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612494)