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Acu alternatives for AI agents.

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

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Acu

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

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#1

WindowsAgentArena

Similarity 124Trust 87Strong 81

Windows Agent Arena (WAA) 🪟 is a scalable OS platform for testing and benchmarking of multi-modal AI agents.

867 starsApr 13, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add microsoft/WindowsAgentArena
#2

ShowUI

Similarity 122Trust 94Excellent 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
#3

Robotgo

Similarity 118Trust 98Excellent 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
#4

Midscene

Similarity 118Trust 94Excellent 100

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

14K starsJun 13, 2026 pushautomationTypeScriptComputer Use
$ npx skills add web-infra-dev/midscene
#5

Fara

Similarity 116Trust 93Excellent 100

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

5.5K starsMay 29, 2026 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add microsoft/fara
#6

Open Computer Use

Similarity 116Trust 82Strong 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
#7

CogAgent

Similarity 114Trust 82Strong 71

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

1.2K starsApr 4, 2025 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add zai-org/CogAgent
#8

Cua

Similarity 111Trust 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
#9

Open Computer Use

Similarity 109Trust 85Excellent 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

SmolVM

Similarity 109Trust 88Excellent 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
#11

Mac Computer Use

Similarity 108Trust 74Needs review 51

A fork of Anthropic Computer Use that you can run on Mac computers to give Claude and other AI models autonomous access to your computer.

875 starsDec 16, 2024 pushautomationPythonComputer Use
$ npx skills add deedy/mac_computer_use
#12

OpenAdapt

Similarity 107Trust 96Excellent 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
#13

MoneyPrinterTurbo

Similarity 106Trust 95Excellent 100

利用AI大模型,一键生成高清短视频 Generate short videos with one click using AI LLM.

89K starsJun 15, 2026 pushautomationPythonAutomation
$ npx skills add harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo
#14

Tiptour Macos

Similarity 105Trust 80Strong 78

Open-Source alternative to Google's AI-enabled pointer.

416 starsMay 30, 2026 pushautomationSwiftComputer Use
$ npx skills add milind-soni/tiptour-macos
#15

UI-TARS Desktop

Similarity 105Trust 87Excellent 100

Run multimodal agents that operate desktop interfaces

35K starsMay 18, 2026 pushautomationUI-TARSDesktop
$ npx skills add bytedance/UI-TARS-desktop
#16

Computer Agent

Similarity 104Trust 77Strong 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

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