🤖 Open-CUAK: “OpenAI Operator” Now Goes Open Source! 👥

Kimi Lu — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:05:21 +0000

Hey guys, we just want to share Open-CUAK, an open-source alternative to OpenAI's Operator product. It works out-of-the-box and you can host it locally. You can use any VLM as you like (Claude, Gemini, and of course, we support open-source models).

Give us a star on Github! https://github.com/aident-ai/open-cuak

Why Open-CUAK?

In the real world, businesses need automation that just works — agents that are reliable, scalable, and cost-effective. We believe automation should be open, accessible, and adaptable to your specific workflows. That’s why we built Open-CUAK (pronounced "quack" 🦆🗣️), as the Kubernetes for Computer Use Agents (CUA), enabling businesses to hire, teach, and manage automation agents with ease.

With Open-CUAK, you can:

✅ Run Operator-like automation workflows locally, ensuring full privacy
✅ Use vision-based automation with more flexibility and reliability, just like a human
✅ Turn any browser into an Operator-companion, with a browser extension
✅ Utilize a dedicated remote browser to mitigate risks associated, without sharing your own
✅ Use any vision-compatible model, whether frontier or open-source (Claude, Gemini, LLaVA, etc.)
✅ Bypass frustrating bot detection, unlocking more automation possibilities
🔜 Teach agents new workflows reliably, with SOP-based training
🔜 Centralize all account access in one place, managing everything agents have access to
⏳ Monitor and manage a large number of tasks, with built-in observability tools
⏳ Deploy and scale hundreds of agents to execute real-world tasks, in parallel
⏳ Open source a RL-trained CUA model to run automations, for free

Open-Source & Ready to Use

We are making agentic automation open and accessible for everyone. You can now:

Run Open-CUAK locally and avoid expensive SaaS fees.
Customize workflows for your industry-specific needs.
Experiment with different vision models and grow your own automation crew.

“When automation becomes reliable, it becomes scalable. And when it becomes scalable, it becomes profitable.”

Cheers,

Kimi

DEV Community: Kimi Lu

🤖 Open-CUAK: “OpenAI Operator” Now Goes Open Source! 👥