Cowork Local

Cowork Local is the internal AI cowork desktop platform owned by the Cowork Team. It provides the Cowork runtime, workspace and agent experiences, MCP/connectors, security controls, and model routing foundation.

The Cowork Team owns this product and its stable branch. The FSG AI Core Team contributes selected reusable capabilities through branches and Pull Requests; it is not the owner or final merger of this repository.

Quick start

The imported application is a Python/PySide6 package. Run it from the directory that contains cowork_local:

python -m cowork_local

The source snapshot does not include a complete runtime dependency manifest. Use the Cowork Team's supported runtime environment until that packaging contract is documented. The reliable automated test surface currently checked by CI is:

python -m pip install -r cowork_local/requirements-test.txt
python -m pytest cowork_local/tests -q

When already inside this repository, run python -m pytest tests -q.

Configuration and runtime data live under ~/.cowork_local/. Provider keys and local unlock codes must be supplied through environment variables or an approved secret manager; see .env.example.

Contributing

Start with START_CONTRIBUTING.md, then read CONTRIBUTING.md. Core AI task execution remains in fsg-ai-core-assets; source changes are reviewed as Pull Requests in this repository.

Security concerns should follow SECURITY.md. Ownership and completion rules are documented under docs/governance/.