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

Feb 12, 2025  
Team Aident

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!

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.”

## Get Started Today 🚀

🔗 **Try Open-CUAK now** → [GitHub Repo](https://github.com/aident-ai/open-cuak)

👥 **Join the community** → [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/SHT4etYuX2), [X](https://x.com/Aident_AI), [Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@aident-ai)

💬 **Need help?** → Connect with us on [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/SHT4etYuX2) & [Twitter/X](https://x.com/Aident_AI)!

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

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