PM-Shawn / Abu-Cowork
Open-source AI office assistant for your desktop: describe the result or file you want in one sentence, and Abu plans and does the rest. Local-first, with Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek and Ollama.
Why this job: works in the areas we cover, but does not say which job it does
What it does
- Autonomous Agent. More than chat: plans, invokes tools, reads/writes files, executes commands, and completes complex tasks end-to-end
- Plan Mode. For high-risk steps (delete / overwrite / send / install), Abu first presents a step-by-step plan and waits for you to click "Confirm & run"; only read-only ops run while awaiting approval
- Interactive questions. When Abu needs you to decide (pick an approach, provide a parameter), it pops an option card above the composer; single or multi-select, with an "Other" free-text row
- Per-conversation settings. Permission mode (Request Approval / Smart Review / Full Autonomy) and model can be switched per conversation without bleeding across chats
- Soul Personality System. Three proactivity presets (Quiet / Buddy / Butler) decide when Abu speaks up; customize tone, address, reply style, and boundaries via SOUL.md
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 8 days ago
- Stars
- 419
- +3 this week
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- 2 systems
- Mac, Windows
- Latest version
- v0.61.0
- Released 8 days ago
- Built with
- TypeScript
- 79% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 41% closed
- 47 still open
- Pull requests
- 580 merged
- 37 waiting
- Releases
- 146
- 30+ in the last year
- No contributing guide
- Security policy (opens in new tab)
- No code of conduct
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More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v0.61.0
- Mac2 files, 9 downloads
- Windows1 file, 20 downloads
Languages
- TypeScript 79%
- JavaScript 15%
- Rust 3%
- Python 1%
Topics
- ai-agent
- ai-assistant
- automation
- desktop-app
- llm
- local-first
- mcp
- privacy
- react
- typescript
- productivity
- agent-framework
Project record
- JobOther AI tools
- StatusListed
- Commits4,847
- Forks99
- Watching3
- Stars in 28 days+30
- CreatedMar 9, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026