Andrew Ng's OpenWorker Hits 10,380 Stars in Nine Days With an Approval-Gated Desktop Agent and 25+ Connectors
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andrewyng/openworker (created 2026-07-20, MIT, 10,380 stars, 1,349 forks, 281 open issues) is an open-beta desktop AI coworker built on aisuite that produces finished deliverables rather than chat, with a local Python agent server and integrations across GitHub, Slack, Jira, Notion, Linear, HubSpot, Outlook, monday.com, Gmail and Google Calendar plus any MCP tool. Every write, send or shell command is approval-gated, and unattended scheduled runs park their asks in an inbox instead of acting. Model access is bring-your-own-key across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Inkling, GLM, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen, MiniMax, Mistral and Grok, or fully local via Ollama. Six releases shipped between 2026-07-22 and 2026-07-23 alone.