UI TARS Desktop

Name: UI TARS Desktop
Author: bytedance

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@agent-tars/cli · by bytedance

The Open-Source Multimodal AI Agent Stack: Connecting Cutting-Edge AI Models and Agent Infra

37.4k 707/wk GitHub npm

No known CVEs

Apache-2.0 license

Actively maintained

Last commit 13d ago

Works with most clients

Transport: stdio, sse, http

0 tools

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AI / ML Productivity

Step 1

Install in your client

Config is the same across clients — only the file and path differ.

Supported in Claude Desktopstdio, sse, http · Node 18+

Paste into ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ui-tars-desktop": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@agent-tars/cli"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

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What UI TARS Desktop does

UI-TARS Desktop by ByteDance. A desktop AI assistant that can see and interact with your screen. Uses vision models to understand UI elements and automate desktop tasks.

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Is UI TARS Desktop safe to use?: UI TARS Desktop has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Apache-2.0.
How do I install UI TARS Desktop?: UI TARS Desktop supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.
What AI clients work with UI TARS Desktop?: UI TARS Desktop is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.
Is UI TARS Desktop actively maintained?: UI TARS Desktop is actively maintained — last commit was 13 days ago. It has 37,400 GitHub stars.

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Introduction

TARS^* is a Multimodal AI Agent stack, currently shipping two projects: Agent TARS and UI-TARS-desktop:

Agent TARS

UI-TARS-desktop

Agent TARS is a general multimodal AI Agent stack, it brings the power of GUI Agent and Vision into your terminal, computer, browser and product.

It primarily ships with a CLI and Web UI for usage. It aims to provide a workflow that is closer to human-like task completion through cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and seamless integration with various real-world MCP tools.

UI-TARS Desktop is a desktop application that provides a native GUI Agent based on the UI-TARS model.

It primarily ships a local and remote computer as well as browser operators.

News

[2025-11-05] 🎉 We're excited to announce the release of Agent TARS CLI v0.3.0! This version brings streaming support for multiple tools (shell commands, multi-file structured display), runtime settings with timing statistics for tool calls and deep thinking, Event Stream Viewer for data flow tracking and debugging. Additionally, it features exclusive support for AIO agent Sandbox as isolated all-in-one tools execution environment.

[2025-06-25] We released an Agent TARS Beta and Agent TARS CLI - Introducing Agent TARS Beta, a multimodal AI agent that aims to explore a work form that is closer to human-like task completion through rich multimodal capabilities (such as GUI Agent, Vision) and seamless integration with various real-world tools.

[2025-06-12] - 🎁 We are thrilled to announce the release of UI-TARS Desktop v0.2.0! This update i

Frequently Asked Questions

Is UI TARS Desktop safe to use?

UI TARS Desktop has no known CVEs as of the latest MCPpedia security scan. It does not require authentication, so any local process can connect — keep this in mind in shared environments. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

How do I install UI TARS Desktop?

UI TARS Desktop supports copy-paste install configs on its MCPpedia page for Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Claude Code. Scroll to the Quick Install section and select your client.

What AI clients work with UI TARS Desktop?

UI TARS Desktop is compatible with claude-desktop, cursor, claude-code. It uses stdio and sse and http transport.

Is UI TARS Desktop actively maintained?

UI TARS Desktop is actively maintained — last commit was 13 days ago. It has 37,400 GitHub stars.

Introduction

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TARS^* is a Multimodal AI Agent stack, currently shipping two projects: Agent TARS and UI-TARS-desktop:

Agent TARS	UI-TARS-desktop

Agent TARS is a general multimodal AI Agent stack, it brings the power of GUI Agent and Vision into your terminal, computer, browser and product. It primarily ships with a CLI and Web UI for usage. It aims to provide a workflow that is closer to human-like task completion through cutting-edge multimodal LLMs and seamless integration with various real-world MCP tools.	UI-TARS Desktop is a desktop application that provides a native GUI Agent based on the UI-TARS model. It primarily ships a local and remote computer as well as browser operators.

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Agent TARS
UI-TARS Desktop
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News

[2025-11-05] 🎉 We're excited to announce the release of Agent TARS CLI v0.3.0! This version brings streaming support for multiple tools (shell commands, multi-file structured display), runtime settings with timing statistics for tool calls and deep thinking, Event Stream Viewer for data flow tracking and debugging. Additionally, it features exclusive support for AIO agent Sandbox as isolated all-in-one tools execution environment.
[2025-06-25] We released an Agent TARS Beta and Agent TARS CLI - Introducing Agent TARS Beta, a multimodal AI agent that aims to explore a work form that is closer to human-like task completion through rich multimodal capabilities (such as GUI Agent, Vision) and seamless integration with various real-world tools.
[2025-06-12] - 🎁 We are thrilled to announce the release of UI-TARS Desktop v0.2.0! This update i

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UI TARS Desktop

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