AIPOCH Open-Science: open-source AI research workbench with .science packages
AIPOCH publicly released Open-Science on 2026-10-14 (Singapore): an open-source, local-first AI research workbench with 23 built-in skills, 525 marketplace skills, 36 research connectors, and portable .science session packages, accompanied by preprint arXiv:2610.17110.
Why it matters
An Apache-2.0, local-first AI research workbench bundling 23 built-in plus 525 marketplace skills, 36 research connectors, and four agent frameworks behind portable .science packages — making an entire AI-assisted research trail reviewable, replayable, and shareable.
What you could build with it
An independent researcher or small lab could adopt the .science package format to publish a fully reproducible experiment bundle: code, skills, connectors, and agent runs in one portable file. The result: peer reviewers can replay an entire AI-assisted study instead of trusting a methods section.
Does it hold up?
Evidence-based but thin: 4,845 GitHub stars (verified via API), 2000+ commits, and weekly releases (v0.30→v0.35) show sustained real development and uptake, but all hands-on walkthroughs and video coverage found were vendor-produced or PR syndication — no independent third-party research-workflow verdicts yet.
Built with AIPOCH Open-Science
- aipoch/open-science - Gource visualisationyoutube · Third-party auto-generated Gource animation of aipoch/open-science's full development history (2000+ commits, ~4108 stars at time of upload) — evidence of sustained, public community development ahead of the formal launch.
- suyinuo157/medical-research-skillsgithub · 1 ★ · Third-party fork curating 500+ medical-research agent skills (protocol design, data analysis, evidence insights, academic writing) built to run in Open-Science and other SKILL.md-compatible agent platforms.
- aipoch/openscience-skill-marketplacegithub · Vendor-owned skills marketplace repo (0 stars at check time, still being populated); the backing store for the 525 marketplace skills advertised with the release.
Learn more
technical deep dive (arXiv preprint) →
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