OpenMAIC¶

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Development line: project:openmaic · thread openmaic-development
Last event: 2026-03-16 · 1 dated since 2026-03-16 · Researched: 2026-09-05 · confidence: medium

What it is¶

OpenMAIC is an open-source classroom generator for educators and learners: slides, quizzes, interactive HTML scenes, project-based learning, AI teacher/peer discussion, whiteboard, TTS, and exports. Self-hosting currently requires Node.js 22.19+ and pnpm 10+. Verdict: use it when a generated lesson needs a playable classroom rather than a chatbot answer.

Development line¶

2026-03-16 — OpenMAIC project resources referenced. On 2026-03-16, a dated OpenMAIC message referenced the project's GitHub repository and public website. The supplied evidence does not establish a release, feature, launch, or other technical milestone, so this event records the availability of those project resources only.

What changed¶

2026-03-16 — OpenMAIC was founded and open-sourced as a multi-agent interactive-classroom project; the first tagged release followed on 2026-03-26.

How to use this¶

As of 2026-03-16, practitioners can use the referenced GitHub repository and project website as the identified OpenMAIC resources; no specific capability, release, or usage guidance is established by the supplied evidence.

Clone the repository and install dependencies with pnpm. — https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
Copy .env.example to .env.local and configure at least one LLM provider. — https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
Run pnpm dev, then open http://localhost:3000; use pnpm build && pnpm start for a production build. — https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
For a shared deployment, set ACCESS_CODE so the UI and API routes require the site password. — https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC

Best practices¶

Treat pre-0.3 interactive widgets as compatibility candidates: v0.3.0 removed same-origin access from the iframe sandbox. — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/main/CHANGELOG.md
Do not put credentials in Docker build arguments; image metadata or build provenance can retain them. — https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC
Use ACCESS_CODE for a shared instance rather than leaving its generated classrooms and API routes open. — https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC

Superseded by this¶

2026-06-28 — AGPL-3.0 commercial-licensing guidance is obsolete: v0.3.0 relicensed OpenMAIC under MIT.
2026-06-28 — guidance assuming interactive widgets may use same-origin iframe access is obsolete; that sandbox permission was removed.

Still unknown¶

The exact capability set and commit at the 2026-03-16 launch cannot be reconstructed from a launch-tagged source: the first tagged release is v0.1.0 on 2026-03-26.
The hosted service was not used as evidence because its page did not expose readable content during review.

Sources¶

source	title	read
https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC	THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC repository and current setup guide	2026-09-05
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC/main/CHANGELOG.md	OpenMAIC changelog	2026-09-05
https://shangqingtu.github.io/	Shangqing Tu — News	2026-09-05

Agent brief¶

Subject: project:openmaic, thread openmaic-development, 1 dated events 2026-03-16 → 2026-03-16.
Practical note: As of 2026-03-16, practitioners can use the referenced GitHub repository and project website as the identified OpenMAIC resources; no specific capability, release, or usage guidance is established by the supplied evidence.
Confidence: medium. Dated supersedes above are the authority for what is obsolete.