os-optics Goes Open Source to Let AI Agents Handle Optical Design

At 20:57 on 2026-11-12, a team shared the open-source projects os-optics and os-optics-kit on V2EX, along with the project entry points and installation instructions. The projects are published on GitHub and PyPI and can be installed with pip install os-optics os-optics-kit. A web interface is available at http://opensci-optics.com, and the contact email is qianyuan.li@opensci.group.

The stated goal is to let AI agents take over as much of the follow-up work as possible once optical engineers have laid out their requirements. The team says the setup allows AI agents to participate in optical design and component selection without being tied to a UI, without legal risk, and while consuming fewer tokens, with the ambition of eventually joining assembly and later maintenance work as well. The project currently ships 3000+ preset optical components, mostly standard parts that are readily purchasable on the market, so agents can produce a BOM; custom optical components are also supported. Capabilities span ray tracing, Gaussian beam propagation, polarization and interference analysis, and imaging-quality evaluation through PSF, MTF, wavefront and vector focal fields, with ghost imaging and resonator modes also computable. It is adapted to work with open-source libraries including Perceval, Piquasso, LightPipes, prysm, POPPY, Diffractio, SciPy, Optuna, SALib and grcwa. Public information currently stops at the project release and feature introduction, with no follow-up developments reported yet.