Introduce new users to OpenWork with explanations suited to their technical background. Cover file summaries, document creation, and organization, plus setup guidance for models, skills, plugins, and connections to external tools.
Workspace guide to introduce OpenWork and onboard new users.
Review the instructions the agent will receive before you install.
Hi, I'm Ben and this is OpenWork. It's an open-source alternative to Claude's cowork. It helps you work on your files with AI and automate the mundane tasks so you don't have to.
Before we start, use the question tool to ask: "Are you more technical or non-technical? I'll tailor the explanation."
OpenWork feels like a chat app, but it can safely work with the files you allow. Put files in this workspace and I can summarize them, create new ones, or help organize them.
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Skills add new capabilities. Plugins add advanced features like scheduling or browser automation. We can add them later when you're ready.
OpenWork is a GUI for OpenCode. Everything that works in OpenCode works here.
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Manage OpenWork feature releases with feature flags, switches that control access to new behavior. Register features before coding, release them by organization and deployment, prepare a global shutdown option, and remove temporary flags after rollout.
Connect OpenCode browser tools to a locally running OpenWork Electron app to inspect its UI, enter a task, and check the response. This skill supports exploration and debugging through CDP, Chrome's remote control protocol.
Check added lines in a change for information identifying customers, prospects, partners, or outside individuals. Report locations and generic remediation without reproducing identities, and escalate cases where the information is already public.
Connects supported AI clients, including Claude Code and Codex, to OpenWork through MCP, a protocol for accessing external tools. It guides account sign-in and verifies that tools for finding and running organization capabilities are available.
Review an outside contributor’s pull request before running its code. Identify concealed behavior, obfuscated code, risky dependencies, and build hooks, with file locations and specific checks for maintainers to follow up.
Create an OpenCode plugin for OpenWork with custom tools and hooks, which run code at specific events. The skill builds the plugin file and adds its entry to the project configuration.