Alternatives

OS Agent Survey alternatives for AI agents.

Compare similar skills by workflow fit, trust score, quality, GitHub adoption, maintenance, and install readiness.

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OS Agent Survey

This is the repo for the paper "OS Agents: A Survey on MLLM-based Agents for Computer, Phone and Browser Use" (ACL 2025 Oral).

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#1

ShowUI

Similarity 122Trust 93Excellent 98

[CVPR 2025] Open-source, End-to-end, Vision-Language-Action model for GUI Agent & Computer Use.

1.9K starsApr 24, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add showlab/ShowUI
#2

Cua

Similarity 119Trust 98Excellent 100

Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).

18K starsJun 13, 2026 pushautomationHTMLComputer Use
$ npx skills add trycua/cua
#3

Fara

Similarity 116Trust 92Excellent 100

Fara-7B: An Efficient Agentic Model for Computer Use

5.5K starsMay 29, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add microsoft/fara
#4

CogAgent

Similarity 114Trust 84Strong 71

An open-sourced end-to-end VLM-based GUI Agent

1.2K starsApr 4, 2025 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add zai-org/CogAgent
#5

Robotgo

Similarity 110Trust 97Excellent 100

RobotGo, Go Native cross-platform RPA, GUI automation, Auto test and Computer use @vcaesar

11K starsJun 6, 2026 pushautomationGoComputer Use
$ npx skills add go-vgo/robotgo
#6

Midscene

Similarity 110Trust 94Excellent 100

AI-powered, vision-driven UI automation for every platform.

14K starsJun 13, 2026 pushautomationTypeScriptComputer Use
$ npx skills add web-infra-dev/midscene
#7

Acu

Similarity 109Trust 86Strong 81

A curated list of resources about AI agents for Computer Use, including research papers, projects, frameworks, and tools.

1.7K starsSep 26, 2025 pushautomationComputer UseClaude Code
$ npx skills add trycua/acu
#8

SmolVM

Similarity 108Trust 86Excellent 85

Open-source AI sandbox infrastructure with unified API for VMMs -- Firecracker, QEMU and libkrun.

610 starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add CelestoAI/SmolVM
#9

Open Computer Use

Similarity 108Trust 82Excellent 86

State of the Art 82% OSWorld Computer Using Agent, production-ready. Remote and Local! Setup using one API Key

762 starsJun 14, 2026 pushautomationTypeScriptComputer Use
$ npx skills add coasty-ai/open-computer-use
#10

Open Computer Use

Similarity 108Trust 84Strong 74

AI computer use powered by open source LLMs and E2B Desktop Sandbox

2.1K starsJun 5, 2025 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add e2b-dev/open-computer-use
#11

OpenAdapt

Similarity 106Trust 94Excellent 100

Open Source Generative Process Automation (i.e. Generative RPA). AI-First Process Automation with Large ([Language (LLMs) / Action (LAMs) / Multimodal (LMMs)] / Visual Language (VLMs)) Models

1.6K starsJun 13, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add OpenAdaptAI/OpenAdapt
#12

UI-TARS Desktop

Similarity 105Trust 90Excellent 100

Run multimodal agents that operate desktop interfaces

35K starsMay 18, 2026 pushautomationUI-TARSDesktop
$ npx skills add bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop
#13

Computer Agent

Similarity 104Trust 75Strong 70

Desktop app to control your computer with AI using your terminal, browser, mouse & keyboard

652 starsJan 9, 2026 pushautomationRustComputer Use
$ npx skills add suitedaces/computer-agent
#14

UFO

Similarity 103Trust 94Excellent 100

UFO³: Weaving the Digital Agent Galaxy

9.0K starsJun 12, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add microsoft/UFO
#15

MobileAgent

Similarity 103Trust 92Excellent 100

Mobile-Agent: The Powerful GUI Agent Family

8.8K starsMay 14, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add X-PLUG/MobileAgent
#16

Photo Agents

Similarity 102Trust 87Excellent 87

Autonomous self-evolving agents. Vision-grounded layered memory and self-written skills for LLM agents that operate your computer.

861 starsMay 18, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add jmerelnyc/Photo-agents

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