







The open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (powered by opencode)

How open source projects need to adapt to the AI coding era | We Love Open Source • All Things Open
A new Carnegie Mellon study shows AI coding tools boost velocity by 281% — then leave codebases harder to work with. Here's what open source communities need to do before the sugar rush wears off.

From OSS to Open Source AI: an Exploratory Study of Collaborative...
AI development is embracing open-source paradigm, but the fundamental distinction between AI models and traditional software artifacts may lead to a divergent open-source development paradigm with...

Stop Using OpenCode
If you don’t know what OpenCode is, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever. The boot is made of TypeScript and the face is everything we have learned about security and systems software since the invention of the electronic computer in the 1940s. The creators describe it as an AI coding agent. As far as I can tell it’s the most popular open-source coding agent, and it currently has 161k stars on GitHub.
I Switched From Claude Code to OpenCode — Here's Why
I tested OpenCode against Claude Code for real development work. Here's what surprised me about the open-source alternative — and what I don't miss.

For Most of the World, Open-Source AI Is the Only Way Forward
Proprietary AI is both too expensive and too centralized in control for most countries and companies to rely upon.

OpenAccess.ai — Rigorous Open Access Publishing
$20 to submit, free to read. AI peer review. Open to human and machine authors. All articles CC-BY 4.0.

goose | Your open source AI agent
Your native open source AI agent. Desktop app, CLI, and API — for code, workflows, and everything in between.

Using AI in open source
If you want to use AI to help you contribute to one of the projects I maintain, I would be delighted. But I have rules.

Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …

The Open Source AI Definition – 1.0
version 1.0 See FAQsSee list of endorsementsSee ChecklistEndorse the OSAID Preamble Why we need Open Source Artificial Intelligence (AI) Open Source has demonstrated that massive benefits accrue to…
maki
An efficient AI coding agent. Native Rust TUI. Immediate startup, 60 FPS, low memory. Indexes files instead of reading them, chains tools in a sandbox interpreter. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Z.AI, OpenRouter, Synthetic, or any OpenAI / Anthropic compatible API.
OpenWork — Open source Claude Cowork alternative for teams
Bring your own model and provider, wire in your tools and context, and ship reusable agent setups across your org — with guardrails built in.

Codex | AI Coding Partner from OpenAI
The best way to build with agents. Codex accelerates real engineering work, from planning and building features to refactors, reviews, and releases—working seamlessly across your tools.

Cline - AI Coding, Open Source and Uncompromised
Open-source AI coding agent with Plan/Act modes, MCP integration, and terminal-first workflows. Trusted by 5M+ developers worldwide.
