college student replicates claude cowork for open source models

In july I posted here about aletha codex and I got a lot of support, and a decent amount of people started using it. I also got a lot of criticism too, which really helped me funnel this version 1.5 that I have been working on. So since that last post I have been working relentlessly trying to recreate claude cowork for open source models. I personally got to the point where I wanted to step away completely from anything subscription based, but then I realized there’s really nothing out there that offers the same kind of capabilities on top of your open source models, so I just said fuck it and started building it. Building the harness and agents were probably some of the hardest things I have ever done. There are a million problems I ran into, but I’m finally at the point where this is legit and I can show it off. I built it by creating a task/run/turn loop around the model with tool routing, action execution, observation feedback, context management, and a permission layer for anything that touches the computer. Kind of a side plus, but I also have been developing a full device augmentation rig on top of aletha codex, which is also in this same version. I think it’s about a minute after the cowork video ends. But I really wanted my AI to be able to completely control the devices around me, connect to music, speakers, TVs, all by voice or text. That’s probably the most impressive portion, and it’ll only get stronger as I keep trying to develop this. I know everyone says this shit, but I’m genuinely curious about what you guys think of it. I put a decent amount of work into it, and I would love to hear your guys’ thoughts on it, even if you’re tearing it apart lol. submitted by /u/Top-Fan4255 [link] [comments]

Source: r/ollama | 2026-09-09

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