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OpenWork Cloud is optional. The local desktop app stays free, requires no Cloud sign-in, and supports your own providers, skills, plugins, and custom MCP servers. Use Cloud when an organization needs to assign and manage those resources for a team.
OpenWork Cloud is available at app.openworklabs.com. It is for teams that want shared identity, Collections, managed connections and models, desktop policies, or hosted workspaces. First, create or join an organization and connect the desktop app to it.
OpenWork Cloud org settings with organization identity, allowed email domains, and desktop restrictions
  1. Open app.openworklabs.com in your browser.
  2. Click Create organization.
  3. Enter your org name.
  4. Finish checkout if OpenWork Cloud asks for billing.
  5. Continue to the desktop sign-in steps below.
Once you’re there, you can configure the settings for the organization.

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Configure org settings

Only the organization owner can change these settings.
  1. Open the dashboard/org_settings page in the cloud app.
  2. Set the name for your organization.
  3. Optional: enable Restrict allowed email domains and add the approved domains.
  4. Optional: change any Desktop restrictions that should apply after people sign in from the desktop app.
These settings apply across the organization. You can also create teams, publish plugins through Collections, configure Connectors and shared models, and deploy hosted workspaces. Next, you want to make sure you can sign in the desktop app.

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Sign in from the desktop app

  1. Open Settings > Account.
  2. Click Sign in.
  3. Finish sign-in in your browser.
  4. If the browser does not return to OpenWork automatically, click Paste sign-in code, paste the openwork://den-auth?... link or one-time code from OpenWork Cloud, then click Finish sign-in.

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Cloud URL used by the desktop app

The desktop app uses a single Cloud URL: the Den web baseUrl. The hosted default is https://app.openworklabs.com. All Cloud API and MCP traffic is derived from that one URL through the web app proxy:
  • Cloud API requests go to <baseUrl>/api/den/v1/....
  • OpenWork Cloud MCP requests go to <baseUrl>/api/den/mcp/....
The desktop app does not store or read a separate API URL. On startup it reads the Cloud URL from desktop-bootstrap.json; if that file is missing, it falls back to https://app.openworklabs.com. When you change the Cloud URL in Settings > Account, OpenWork writes the new baseUrl back to the bootstrap file so the next launch uses the same source of truth.

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Choose your organization

After sign-in, pick your organization in Settings > Account. Organization-assigned plugins and skills appear in Settings > Library.

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