OpenWork

OpenWork exists so that a skill or a connection you configure once does not have to be rebuilt inside every agent you use. It is a free desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, an open source alternative to Claude Cowork and Codex, though the desktop shell is optional.

The part that does the sharing is a single MCP server. Add it to Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, OpenCode or any compatible client and it exposes two tools, one that searches your capabilities and one that executes them. Signing in through the browser attaches your organization, after which assigned skills, plugins, MCP connections, Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 capabilities appear inside that client.

For larger organizations there is a control plane called OpenWork Den.

• Access management: invite teammates, create teams and manage who reaches what from one place.
• Inference control: provision models at scale and decide which members may use each provider.
• Marketplaces: publish skills and plugins, then assign them to the organization, a team or named people.
• Desktop policy: restrict local model access and pin which app versions the organization may run.
• Plugin import: bring in Agent Plugins or Anthropic-compatible plugins and expose their skills and remote MCPs.

The repository uses a split license. Everything outside the ee directory, meaning the desktop app and core platform, is MIT. The Den control plane is source-available, free for organizations of up to five users, free to evaluate for thirty days at any size, and converts to MIT two years after each release.