OpenMAIC

// Overview

OpenMAIC (Open Multi-Agent Interactive Classroom) is an open-source app from THU-MAIC, a research team at Tsinghua University, that turns a topic or an uploaded document into a lesson you can sit through. A group of agents plans the curriculum, writes the material and then delivers it: slides, quizzes, interactive HTML simulations and project-based activities, with text-to-speech narration and a whiteboard you can draw on while the lesson runs.

It is a multi-agent system rather than a single prompt-to-slides generator. Separate agents take the teacher and peer roles inside the classroom, and a Pro-mode agent workbench lets you chat with an agent that plans the curriculum and then builds and revises every page. Lessons export to PowerPoint, interactive HTML or MP4.

OpenMAIC is provider-neutral. It runs against OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other hosted APIs through your own key, and can also point at a local model server such as Ollama or Lemonade. Persistence is pluggable, with an optional PostgreSQL backend for server-side storage, and the interface ships in twelve locales.

// What it does

• One-click lesson generation from a topic or an uploaded document
• Multi-agent classroom with agent teachers and peer roles rather than a single generator
• Mixed scene types — slides, quizzes, interactive HTML simulations and project-based activities
• Text-to-speech narration plus a shared whiteboard for drawing during a lesson
• Agent workbench (Pro mode) that plans a curriculum and revises pages through chat
• Export to .pptx, interactive HTML or MP4
• Bring your own key across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and other providers, or point at a local model server
• Twelve-locale interface and optional PostgreSQL-backed persistence

// Getting started

OpenMAIC is a TypeScript app you run locally with pnpm. You supply your own model API key.

git clone https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC.git
cd OpenMAIC
pnpm install

cp .env.example .env.local
# then edit .env.local and add your OpenAI, Anthropic or Google key

pnpm dev
# http://localhost:3000

ALLOW_LOCAL_NETWORKS=true pnpm dev

Commands and code are distilled from the project's own documentation — always check the official repo for the latest.

// When to use it

• Turn a paper, a spec or a set of notes into a lesson you can actually sit through instead of skim
• Generate slide decks and quizzes for a course and export them to PowerPoint
• Give a self-taught learner an agent teacher plus peer agents to ask questions alongside
• Build interactive simulations and programming exercises for a topic without hand-authoring the HTML

// Version history

Every verified update to OpenMAIC that AI/TLDR tracked, newest first — each links to our coverage and the official changeset.

1. 2026-09-13v1.0.2

   A security release fixing three advisories: two ways past the outbound URL guard on /api/proxy-media — a late-applied cloud metadata denylist and DNS rebinding at connect time — plus a route that let any caller overwrite a classroom. Upgrading changes two defaults: POST /api/classroom ignores a client-supplied stage.id, and CGNAT addresses are blocked unless ALLOW_LOCAL_NETWORKS=true.

   our coverage →changeset ↗
2. 2026-09-06v1.0.1

   A security and stability release fixing four privately reported advisories — one critical unauthenticated SSRF caused by an outbound URL guard that ran only in production builds, plus stored XSS in slide HTML, a path traversal on classroom write, and unvalidated provider redirects. Node 22.19 or newer is now required.

   our coverage →changeset ↗

// How OpenMAIC compares

OpenMAIC alongside other open-source learning & tutoring tools AI/TLDR tracks, ranked by GitHub stars.