Andrew Ng has announced OpenWorker, an open-source desktop agent that produces finished work rather than conversation. OpenWorker asks the user for an outcome, not a prompt: a polished document, a Slack reply containing the actual numbers, an updated calendar, a triaged inbox. It then breaks that outcome into steps, works across local files and connected apps, and checks in before anything consequential.
The architecture is four layers, and all of them run on your machine
The repository contains 119 Python files (~32,400 lines) under coworker/, 149 TypeScript/TSX files under surfaces/gui/, and 78 backend test modules.
The stack breaks down as follows:
Desktop shell — a Tauri 2 native window wrapping a React 18 UI. The bundle identifier is com.openworker.desktop, and the shell supervises the Python server itself.
