# ACU - Awesome Agents for Computer Use

> Curated collection of papers, tools, and frameworks for computer-controlling AI agents

ACU is an open-source knowledge base tracking the ecosystem of AI agents that operate computers and mobile devices autonomously via clicks, keystrokes, and APIs. It organizes recent research papers, UI grounding techniques, evaluation benchmarks, and both open-source and commercial frameworks. It serves as a central starting index for developers and researchers building device-control agents.

Website: https://github.com/francedot/acu

## What it is for

- Discover open-source frameworks and environments for building computer-use agents
- Track research papers across GUI grounding, agent safety, and trajectory synthesis
- Find evaluation benchmarks and datasets for measuring desktop and mobile agent performance

## Features

- Taxonomy covering surveys, foundation models, UI grounding, datasets, benchmarks, and safety
- Indexed list of open-source frameworks including Browser Use, OpenInterpreter, and AutoGen
- Curated links to benchmark environments like OSWorld, AndroidWorld, and Windows Agent Arena
- Coverage of UI grounding models such as OmniParser and Ferret-UI
- Community contributions tracked via GitHub

## Pricing

Free

## Details

- Type: Website
- Category: [AI](https://xiry.app/topics/ai.md)
- Open source: yes
- Platforms: Web
- For: AI researchers, software engineers, and robotic process automation developers
- Tags: computer use, ai agents, gui agent, llm, automation, awesome list

## Why it was saved

- [@omarsar0, 7 February 2025](https://x.com/omarsar0/status/1887911960551043166): One comprehensive starting point for anyone building or researching computer-use agents: an indexed collection of papers, projects, frameworks and tools rather than scattered sources.

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- [OmniParser](https://xiry.app/resources/omniparser): Parses UI screenshots into structured interactive elements for vision LLMs (GitHub repo, Open source)
- [Google Opal](https://xiry.app/resources/google-opal): No-code visual canvas for building AI mini-apps from plain English prompts (Web app, Free)
- [Hermes Agent](https://xiry.app/resources/hermes-agent): Open-source, self-hosted AI agent with persistent memory and messaging integrations. (Open source)
- [AutoGPT](https://xiry.app/resources/autogpt): Open-source platform and framework for building autonomous AI agents (GitHub repo, Freemium)

Updated 10 October 2026. Page: https://xiry.app/resources/acu-awesome-agents-for-computer-use

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