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UI-TARS

Pioneering Automated GUI Interaction with Native Agents observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/bytedance/UI-TARS · Python · Apache-2.0 (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

49/100

  • Activity 64
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 42

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 591
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 218
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

11389 stars · 870 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

UI-TARS is ByteDance's open-source multimodal AI agent stack, comprising Agent TARS (a CLI/Web UI multimodal agent that operates terminals, computers, and browsers) and UI-TARS-desktop (a native GUI agent desktop app built on the UI-TARS vision-language model). It connects cutting-edge multimodal LLMs with agent infrastructure and MCP tool integration for human-like task completion.

Use cases

  • automate computer tasks with an AI agent
  • control my browser with a vision language model
  • run a GUI agent that clicks and types like a human
  • use MCP tools with a multimodal AI agent
  • operate my desktop remotely with an AI agent
  • automate repetitive GUI workflows
  • build agents that see and interact with screens

When to choose

  • you want an open-source computer-use or GUI agent driven by vision-language models
  • you need MCP tool integration in a multimodal agent workflow
  • you want both a CLI and desktop app for AI-driven browser/computer automation
  • you want to experiment with the UI-TARS model for screen understanding

When to avoid

  • you need a simple headless API automation without screen interaction
  • you require a fully production-hardened enterprise RPA solution with vendor support
  • your tasks are purely text-based and don't benefit from vision-based GUI control

Facets

application · maturity active

agent-framework mcp computer-vision llm-inference gui cli web-scraping artificial-intelligence large-language-models computer-vision developer-tools cross-platform cross-platform cli computer-use gui-agent multimodal vlm browser-automation mcp-server ui-tars agent-tars vision-language-model desktop-automation ai-agents automation desktop web-server nodejs typescript

1 source

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
bytedance/UI-TARSmain49
bytedance/UI-TARS-desktopfrontend71

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="bytedance/UI-TARS")

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