OpenScience is an open-source AI agent workbench for research

OpenScience is an open-source AI workbench for scientific research. A person gives it a goal, and it can move through a research workflow: finding papers, forming a hypothesis, writing and running code, running experiments, analyzing results, and writing up what happened. It includes a default research agent plus specialist agents for biology, physics, and machine learning, along with helper agents for review and literature checks.

It includes more than 290 skill areas, covering model training, evaluation, datasets, molecular and clinical biology, chemistry tools, papers, figures, and cloud computing. It can query scientific databases such as UniProt, PDB, Ensembl, ChEMBL, PubChem, arXiv, OpenAlex, and Semantic Scholar. The browser workspace includes a file tree, editor, terminal, session history, and views for molecules, genomes, structures, and plots.

It works with models from Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and many other providers, using the user’s own API key or Synthetic Sciences’ Atlas managed model wallet. OpenScience runs as a local server, but its agent is not sandboxed, so sensitive work may need a container or virtual machine for stronger isolation.