OpenScience: The Open-Source AI Workbench Launched Five Days After Claude Science. It Supports More Models, More Skills, and Runs on Your Infrastructure. The Tradeoff Is Everything That Comes With Being Five Days Old.
OpenScience (synthetic-sciences/openscience, Apache 2.0, v1.2.5, YC W26, openscience.sh) is a model-agnostic AI workbench for scientific research that runs the full research loop: literature review, hypothesis, code, experiment, analysis, and write-up, in one continuous session. It ships 250+ editable skills across ML, computational biology, cheminformatics, and cloud compute, plus 30+ scientific databases (UniProt, PDB, ChEMBL, arXiv, OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar) as native agent tools. Any frontier or open-weight model works with a single configuration flag; switching is per-request.
