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Public story · 2026-08-05 · high
It added 3,601 stars to reach 21,018 and shipped tagged macOS alpha builds on August 3 and 4, per its GitHub release history.
Why now: Openwork's release history places v0.18.13 and v0.18.14 on August 3 and 4, right before its star count crossed 21,000 on August 5.
Openwork has climbed to 21,018 GitHub stars and 2,060 forks after adding 3,601 stars this stretch, per its repository page.
The project describes itself flatly as "the open-source alternative to Claude Cowork (powered by opencode)." The description credits opencode as the engine underneath the interface, not a rebuild from scratch. That's the stake for anyone picking an agent runner: a same-week open clone is shipping faster than the original's public changelog.
Release cadence backs the growth up. Openwork shipped v0.18.13 on August 3 and v0.18.14 the next day. A tagged macOS alpha build, 0.18.14-alpha.2119, landed on both of those dates, according to its GitHub release history.
Two related projects show the same pressure from other angles. Anthropic patched a permission-escalation hole in the Claude Agent SDK where a crafted skill name could grant itself extra tool access. Uber separately open-sourced an agent security benchmark spanning 133 MCP servers and 17 attack techniques.
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