Abu Cowork
Description
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
Installation
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
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.
[](https://github.com/PM-Shawn/Abu-Cowork/releases) [](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_ |
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