OpenResearch
MIT coding agents → research agents (Rust)
AI Agents / Coding Agents · OSS/MIT · 7.3k
Reviewed 2026-09-16 · last push 2026-10-19 · repo checked 2026-10-19
What's Good
MIT (alphaXiv/OpenResearch). Isolated git worktrees per research direction, git-native experiment tree, evidence attached to runs, `orx` CLI + skills install. Local ownership of projects/logs/artifacts; optional SSH/Slurm/K8s/Ray/managed compute. Product at openresearch.sh.
The Catch
Vs Spec Kit (spec-driven coding workflow), DSPy (prompt/program optimizers), Promptfoo (eval/red-team): OpenResearch is a research-agent harness and experiment ledger around existing coding agents — not a spec kit, not a prompt compiler, not an eval suite. You still pay (or self-host) the coding agent and any remote compute you dispatch.
Verdict
MIT research-agent workspace. Coding agents → autoresearch; not Spec Kit/DSPy/Promptfoo.
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