In simple English
This is an artificial intelligence program that takes over your computer screen to do tasks for you. You give it a normal instruction in plain English, like closing an app or organizing a spreadsheet. The program looks at what is on the monitor and presses the right buttons and types the right keys. You need your own API keys for the large language models that power the thinking. It runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, but you must be careful because it can execute code on your machine.
What it is
Agent S is an open-source computer use agent framework and Python library for desktop automation. It combines a main generation model with a specialized visual grounding model to translate human instructions into mouse clicks and keyboard actions.
What it is good for
Solo builders who want to automate repetitive desktop workflows or test AI agents on graphical user interfaces without writing custom scripts for every application.
- Can operate real desktop applications through a graphical user interface like a human.
- Achieves state-of-the-art performance on desktop benchmarks like OSWorld.
- Supports multiple AI providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, and open-weight models.
- Requires an external grounding model such as UI-TARS, which adds setup steps and memory needs.
- Enabling the local coding environment lets the agent run arbitrary code on your machine, creating a security risk.
- Setting up all required API keys and Python dependencies takes time for a non-programmer.
Writing manual desktop macros and custom GUI automation scripts.
OpenAI API keys and Hugging Face inference endpoints for grounding models.
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git clone https://github.com/simular-ai/Agent-S.git cd Agent-S pip install -e .