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Learn about OneStream Developer Studio in the new episode of Tech Talks After Hours!

Oct 29, 2026 5:58 PM UTC
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On this episode of Tech Talks After Hours, join Joe Danz and Tom Linton as they look at OneStream Developer Studio. OneStream Developer Studio is a desktop application that brings OneStream development out of the platform and into the tools developers already use, such as Visual Studio, Cursor, Claude, and more.

OneStream Developer Studio

What is ODS? OneStream Developer Studio is a free, standalone desktop tool that bridges OneStream and your local development environment. It lets you pull code and configuration artifacts out of the platform, work on them in the IDE of your choice, and push changes back — all while respecting native OneStream security and generating a full audit trail.
Who is it for? Any developer or technically-minded administrator writing business rules, workspace assemblies, or solution packages in OneStream. If you've ever felt constrained by the built-in editor, ODS is designed specifically to fix that. It's also a foundational tool for partners building and distributing solutions on the Solution Exchange.
Getting it and getting started ODS is available on the Solution Exchange at no additional cost and installs as a standalone desktop application — it does not install into the OneStream platform itself. It's compatible with OneStream 9.2 and higher. Once installed, you connect it to your OneStream environment and define a local repository (a folder on your machine) where your artifacts will be organized.
IDE integration ODS works with any major IDE: VS Code, Visual Studio, Cursor, and others. After connecting, you pull assemblies and files locally, where you gain full IDE capabilities — multi-tab editing, refactoring/rename, IntelliSense, version-aware autocomplete, and build feedback — none of which are available in the OneStream editor today.
Reference assemblies and IntelliSense To eliminate red squiggles and enable full IntelliSense for OneStream's own APIs (like BRAPI), ODS lets you download reference assemblies as a NuGet package. You can download packages for multiple platform versions, which is especially useful for partners who want to validate that their solution will compile against a future OneStream release before it ships.
Push, pull, and preview Once you've edited a file locally, you can use the preview function — added based on direct community feedback — to see a diff of exactly what will change before committing anything. When ready, pushing sends the code to OneStream, which also triggers a compilation on the server side and surfaces any errors back to Dev Studio in real time. Changes made inside OneStream can equally be pulled back to your local environment.
XF Projects: packaging and source control XF Projects are XML configuration files that define which OneStream artifacts belong to a given solution — workspaces, dashboard profiles, cube metadata, transformation rules, and more. Once defined, you can extract all those artifacts locally in one operation, enabling your team to check them into any source control system (Git, Azure DevOps, etc.) and manage merge conflicts and change reviews through standard developer tooling. ODS gets the content onto your machine; you choose the source control tool that fits your organization's security and compliance requirements. XF Projects also let you package a solution into a distributable zip file for sharing with customers or submitting to the Solution Exchange.
CLI and AI agent support Every operation available in the ODS user interface is also accessible via command line (ods commands in PowerShell or command prompt). ODS also ships a downloadable skill file — a set of instructions that teaches AI coding tools like Cursor or Claude exactly how to interact with the Dev Studio CLI. This means you can ask your AI assistant in plain language to check your connection, list available assemblies, push changes, and more — and it will execute those operations through the CLI on your behalf. Future roadmap items include agentic error-log retrieval so the AI can iterate on build failures automatically.
What ODS doesn't do (by design) ODS is not a source control system — OneStream is a finance company, not a development platform, and intentionally stays in its lane. It also does not replace the built-in OneStream editor; both continue to work side by side, and you can continue making changes directly in the platform if you prefer.
Roadmap highlights Items under active consideration based on community feedback include: member formula and transformation rule editing in ODS, earlier QA feedback during Solution Exchange submission (surfaced inside Dev Studio while you develop), and operational integrations to kick off data management jobs and retrieve error logs directly from the CLI — enabling fully agentic development loops.
Key Takeaway: OneStream Developer Studio frees developers from the constraints of the built-in platform editor by giving them a local, IDE-connected workflow with real IntelliSense, diff previews, source control compatibility, and AI-assisted coding — all while keeping changes secure, audited, and synchronized with OneStream.