You manage projects. It manages everything else—departments, dispatch, accounting, and the context to make every session productive from the first prompt.
Claude Code sessions are stateless. You pay for context recovery before you can do real work.
Each session begins blank. You re-explain what you're building, what's blocked, what to work on next. Every time.
Switching between projects means losing all the context you just built. Good luck picking up where you left off.
Re-orienting costs tokens. Tokens cost money. You're paying to re-learn things the session already knew five minutes ago.
Install the plugin. Start a session. Everything below fires without you asking.
Session starts with your project status, blockers, and next steps already in context.
Milestones, briefings, and knowledge survive across sessions. No re-explaining.
Specialized departments and external engines handle tasks with the right context and tools.
Token spend links to milestones. You see ROI per project, not just a bill.
Active, backlog, archived. Shelve a project with a full briefing. Pick it back up months later without losing a beat.
Spawn sub-agents or full agent teams with department-specific knowledge and tool catalogs.
Route tasks to Codex, Gemini, or any AI CLI. Configure in YAML. Save Claude tokens for what matters.
Every task links to a milestone. Automatic token costs + manual progress = spend-per-feature visibility.
Ships with only R&D. It's the stem cell — ask it to research a domain and it builds the department for you.
First run walks you through config with clear explanations. No YAML to write by hand. Change anything later.
Install the plugin, start a session. The wizard handles the rest.
# Add the Open Workshop marketplace /plugin marketplace add look-itsaxiom/open-workshop
# Install the plugin /plugin install open-workshop@look-itsaxiom-open-workshop # Start a new session — wizard runs automatically
All your projects, departments, engine configs, and cost history live in ~/.open-workshop/. The plugin itself is read-only code from the marketplace cache.
Reinstall the plugin, update it, switch machines. Your data stays untouched.
Open Workshop was extracted from Dream Factory, a personal multi-agent studio that manages 5+ creative projects from a single terminal. Card games, SaaS platforms, game engines, portfolio sites — all tracked, dispatched, and accounted for through one Claude Code session.
The patterns that made it productive — persistent context, department dispatch, engine offloading, milestone-linked accounting — were generalized into this distributable plugin. No opinions about your stack. No assumptions about your workflow. Just the infrastructure to be productive from prompt one.