OpenResearch: turn a coding agent into a research agent

Melvin Vivas · X post · 2026-09-15 · Open on X

Topics: AI Agents, Tool Use & MCP, AI Dev Tools & Productivity · Level: intermediate

Summary

The creator shares OpenResearch, which was the #1 trending GitHub repo on the Friday before. It turns any coding agent into a research agent that reviews papers, develops hypotheses, runs experiments and produces research artifacts, so you can go from papers to working code.

Key points

• OpenResearch adds research workflows on top of an existing coding agent.
• Its pipeline covers literature review, hypotheses, experiments and research artifacts.
• Pitch: own and automate your research stack end-to-end.
• Use case: turn research papers into working code.

Resources mentioned

• OpenResearch · repo · github.com · free
  Open-source project that turns coding agents into research agents for literature review, hypotheses, experiments and research artifacts.

Try this

• Use a coding agent with OpenResearch to turn a research paper into a working code implementation.