Introduction

"See the screen, understand the task, take the action."

This is the No.62 article in the "One Open Source Project a Day" series. Today, we are exploring UI-TARS-Desktop .

The AI agent projects we have covered recently—OpenHarness, Symphony, Agent Skills—all operate within the "code world": files, APIs, terminal commands. UI-TARS-Desktop does something fundamentally different: it lets AI directly control a real desktop GUI —not through code, not via API calls, but by clicking buttons, filling out forms, and dragging windows, exactly like a human user.

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