An Open-Source AI Office Suite Landed July 31 and Was Forked Into a Rival Product Four Days Later

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genspark-ai/genoffice (created 2026-07-31, 2,216 stars, 386 forks, TypeScript, Apache-2.0) is an AI-native office suite for macOS and Windows covering word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and PDF. criptogus/HermesOffice (created 2026-08-04, 417 stars) is an explicit Apache-2.0 fork of it with a different agent — 'native Hermes Agent AI' — swapped in. The four-day fork-to-competitor turnaround is the story: permissively licensed AI app shells are now being re-skinned around whichever agent runtime the forker prefers, which is worth weighing before betting a workflow on either one's roadmap.