Tag
Orkas is an open-source, local-first desktop agent app where a lead agent coordinates specialized sub-agents, each with its own context boundary, using user-provided API keys from various LLM providers.
Cui Tianyi (former quantitative specialist at Jane Street) joined DeepSeek in March 2025 as the head of the newly formed Harness team, developing a desktop agent product that competes with Anthropic's Claude Code.
A developer shares four common accessibility tree pitfalls that break desktop agents: stale PIDs after app switches, modal sheets intercepting clicks, multi-monitor coordinate issues, and silent failures. Solutions include detecting frontmost app changes, explicit modal checks, and correct coordinate targeting.
ByteDance open-sourced UI-TARS-desktop, a native desktop GUI agent with 31.4k GitHub stars that uses vision models to control local or remote applications via natural language. The tool runs locally for privacy, supports Windows and macOS, and includes a CLI with streaming output for developers.