PM-Shawn

Abu Cowork — AI skill for Claude Code

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Open-source alternative to Claude Cowork — a local-first AI agent desktop app · multi-model · self-evolving skills · privacy-first · multi-Harness roadmap · DeepSeek Harness integration in progress.

How to install Abu Cowork

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open PM-Shawn/Abu-Cowork and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Abu Cowork does

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README

**English** | [中文](README.zh-CN.md)

Abu

**Your AI Desktop Office Assistant — Just Leave It to Abu**

A locally-run AI desktop assistant inspired by Claude Code's Cowork mode. Tell Abu what you need — it reads files, runs commands, writes docs, and builds reports, all on your machine.

[![Release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/PM-Shawn/Abu-Cowork?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/PM-Shawn/Abu-Cowork/releases) [![License](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-Apache%202.0-blue?style=flat-square)](LICENSE)

[Download](#download) · [Quick Start](#quick-start) · [Features](#features) · [User Guide](docs/User-Guide.md) · [Build from Source](#build-from-source)

🚧 **Multi-Harness integration in progress:** Abu is evolving toward pluggable agent runtimes, with [DeepSeek Harness](https://github.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-harness) among the first integration targets. Stable releases currently use Abu's native harness.

Why Abu?

Feature	Abu	Regular AI Chat	Traditional Automation
Autonomous planning & task execution	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:x:
Read/write local files, run commands	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:white_check_mark:
Natural language interaction	:white_check_mark:	:white_check_mark:	:x:
29 built-in skills + self-evolving (Abu grows its own)	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:x:
Multi-conversation Project aggregation	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:x:
Scheduled tasks & event triggers	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:white_check_mark:
IM bot (Lark/DingTalk/WeCom/Slack)	:white_check_mark:	:x:	Partial
Multi-agent parallel execution	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:x:
Browser & computer control	:white_check_mark:	:x:	Partial
100% local data, privacy-safe	:white_check_mark:	:x:	:white_check_