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

Editor’s note (July 2026): This post documents the February 2025 Open-CUAK release. Check the GitHub repository for its current maintenance status and supported models before deploying it.

If you’ve been following OpenAI’s Operator, you’ll love this! Open-CUAK gives you full control over automation agents without the $200 monthly fee.

We’re excited to announce Open-CUAK – an open-source platform for managing automation agents at scale. Now, you can run workflows locally, using any vision-compatible frontier model!

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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.)
✅ Run browser automation in an isolated remote browser rather than sharing your daily browser
🔜 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.

Reliability, observability, and controlled access are prerequisites for scaling browser automation beyond experiments.

Get Started Today 🚀

🔗 Try Open-CUAK now → GitHub Repo

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💬 Need help? → Connect with us on Discord & Twitter/X!

Let’s build the future of AI-powered automation together. 🦆🗣️🗣️🗣️