Open Science is an open-source, local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench developed by AIPOCH for scientists and researchers. It runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux and supports computational and data-intensive research in fields including machine learning, statistics, life sciences, chemistry, materials science, physics, and environmental science.
Users create projects and sessions, describe research goals in plain language, attach source files, select a model and approval mode, and inspect the agent’s tool activity. Scientific AI agents can read files, search the web, execute Python and R code, query scientific data sources, and produce reports, tables, figures, and other research artifacts. The workbench supports literature review, hypothesis development, code execution, data analysis, simulation, visualization, and related reproducible research workflows. Its first-run setup checks the environment, configures model-provider credentials, optionally prepares Python and R runtimes, and prepares an agent runtime such as Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex; app-managed runtimes can be installed without Node.js, npm, or administrator privileges.
Projects keep sessions, uploads, generated files, and preview state together. Conversations record agent answers and the commands, file reads, edits, searches, and connector calls behind them. Generated artifacts are stored as immutable, checksummed versions; their Provenance view can show producer code and execution history, referenced inputs, the observed environment inventory, the producing conversation branch, and version-scoped reviewer findings, marking unavailable evidence as unavailable rather than guessing.