Open source alternatives to Claude Cowork

2 projects on starwire do the same job. Ranked by how much of what Claude Cowork does each one covers, read from its README and website. Ties go to the most active.

What Claude Cowork does

AI agent that completes tasks on your computercore
Work with local files and folderscore
Create documents and spreadsheets
Research and summarize
Connectors to other apps
Scheduled tasks

Each dot in the table is one job, in this order. Square dots are core jobs and count double. Full means yes, half means partly. "See the evidence" under a project shows the line behind each one. Coverage is what a project documents, not how well it works or how hard it is to move to. How we score this

Project	Covers	Stars	Commits, 12 weeks	Last release	Closed vs opened	Setup	License
eigentOpen alternative to Claude Cowork that runs AI agents on your desktop	Replaces it94%	16k+52	238	15 days ago	54%	Install like an app	Apache-2.0
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Create documents and spreadsheets.See the evidence AI agent that completes tasks on your computercoreYesturn your most complex workflows into automated tasks Work with local files and folderscoreYesYour files, credentials, and context stay under your control. Create documents and spreadsheetsPartlyDraft the Q4 positioning memo Research and summarizeYesResearch, write, debug, and operate alongside it Connectors to other appsYesMCP Integration Scheduled tasksYesSchedule recurring workflows and let agents run tasks
openworkOpen-source desktop agent app, an alternative to Claude Cowork	Replaces it81%	25k+79	2,486	yesterday	100%	Install like an app	Custom license
Covers all 2 core jobs. Partly: Create documents and spreadsheets; Research and summarize; Scheduled tasks.See the evidence AI agent that completes tasks on your computercoreYeswhere AI agents do real work on your own files Work with local files and folderscoreYesYour files stay local. Create documents and spreadsheetsPartlyClean up invoices.xlsx Research and summarizePartlyPull last week s closed Linear issues Connectors to other appsYesGoogle Workspace, and Microsoft 365 capabilities Scheduled tasksPartlyChat, Library and Automations, on your own files.

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