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

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

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Post by ben_talent »

McAdam wrote: post #10

Still feels a bit technical. The Claude approach is designed for "Susan in Accounting" - what thoughts do you have to reduce the technical barriers?

Yeah it is still too technical.

First obvious stuff like getting the dmg notarized having easier install.

Then after it will be about optimizing onboarding. One of the core goals is to help Susan do 1 small task in under 5 min.

To do that we will need to: - have some prepackaged configs for folks like starter template - ship opencode within the app itself so users don't need to manually install it - and get rid of the technical jargon that is cluttered in the app.

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

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Post by louis030195 »

Looks great. I don't use opencode myself but like a lot Claude skills, agents, I have like 50 different ones for personal life, work, dating, whatever Is there integration with Claude skills?

Have you considered using or integrating with ACP? https://zed.dev/acp

We use it in our desktop app IDE (mediar.ai) and it's pretty good

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

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Post by ben_talent »

louis030195 wrote: post #12

Looks great. I don't use opencode myself but like a lot Claude skills, agents, I have like 50 different ones for personal life, work, dating, whatever Is there integration with Claude skills? Have you considered using or integrating with ACP? https://zed.dev/acp We use it in our desktop app IDE (mediar.ai) and it's pretty good

Yes it's fully integrated with Claude Skills.

There's first-class integration of https://github.com/enulus/OpenPackage and we provide a ui to install from a list of skills easily as well as add your own.

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

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Post by ben_talent »

imiric wrote: post #14

The word "open" in software names has completely lost its meaning.

I used "open" because: - it's open source - built on top of open source (opencode) - it's built-around extensibility via plain-text files (skills) and open-source plugins

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

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Post by observationist »

ben_talent wrote: post #6
pojntfx wrote: post #2

This doesn't seem to be open source, it's currently "all rights reserved" and not under an OSI or FSF license: https://github.com/different-ai/openwork?tab=readme-ov-file#...

Updated ! Thanks for flagging

Awesome! Very cool project, and kudos for making it MIT licensed.

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

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Post by yowlingcat »

Great stuff and very timely. I just started getting into using opencode and while I'm hugely optimistic about its capabilities and can use it personally without too much sweat, I was left hoping for something a bit more batteries included to give to my non technical colleagues so we can collaborate together. This looks to be exactly what we were looking for so I am looking forward to giving it a spin!
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