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Native Linux desktop control for AI agents (MCP, Pi, CLI) — semantic AT-SPI trees, screenshots, window targeting, and input across GNOME, KDE, Hyprland, niri, COSMIC, i3, and X11.

Updated Nov 1, 2026. Review written Nov 1, 2026 from the project's own sources; usage data refreshed every Monday.

computer-use-linux at a glance

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MCP and agent tools

Is computer-use-linux growing? Usage data

In the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, computer-use-linux ranked #290 on the Devtoolwatch Board and #46 in MCP and agent tools, with a momentum score of 33 out of 100. Its main package had about 3.6k downloads that week, +55% against its own 4-week average.

New GitHub stars per week for computer-use-linux12 weeks from Aug 9, 2026: 35, 25, 33, 28, 40, 51, 36, 30, 30, 31, 30, 48 new stars, an average of 35 a week.Aug 9week of Oct 25
New GitHub stars per week for the last 12 weeks, from GitHub's stargazer history (today's stargazers by the week they starred).
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New GitHub stars per week for computer-use-linux
Week ofNew stars
Aug 9, 202635
Aug 16, 202625
Aug 23, 202633
Aug 30, 202628
Sep 6, 202640
Sep 13, 202651
Sep 20, 202636
Sep 27, 202630
Oct 4, 202630
Oct 11, 202631
Oct 18, 202630
Oct 25, 202648

The Board ranks tools by four signals each week: new stars, new stars for the repo's size, added downloads and download growth beyond the market. How the ranking works.

computer-use-linux alternatives

Other MCP servers and agent tools on the Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum:

MCP and agent tools ranked by momentum, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026
RankToolStarsDownloads/wk
#1REAREA is an MCP server and CLI that lets coding agents reverse engineer native binaries, JavaScript and Electron apps, .NET assemblies,…415.5k760.6k
#2ha-mcpha-mcp is an unofficial Model Context Protocol server that lets AI assistants control and manage Home Assistant using natural language.5.4k118.1k
#3TregTreg is a registry and proxy that gives AI agents one token for a catalog of paid third-party API endpoints and team-shared tools.6.9k6.7k
#4Chrome DevTools MCPChrome DevTools MCP is an MCP server and CLI that lets coding agents control and inspect a live Chrome browser using Chrome DevTools.54.6k2.7M
#5codebase-memory-mcpHigh-performance code intelligence MCP server. Indexes codebases into a persistent knowledge graph — average repo in milliseconds. 162…47.9k–
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How popular is computer-use-linux?

computer-use-linux has 780 GitHub stars as of Nov 1, 2026. It gained 48 new stars in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, against a 12-week average of 35 a week. Its main package had about 3.6k downloads that week, +55% against its own 4-week average. That made it #46 among MCP servers and agent tools on the Devtoolwatch Board.

What are the best alternatives to computer-use-linux?

Other MCP servers and agent tools on the Devtoolwatch Board in the week of Oct 25–31, 2026, by momentum: REA (#1), ha-mcp (#2), Treg (#3), Chrome DevTools MCP (#4), codebase-memory-mcp (#5). The alternatives table above has their numbers.

Sources

  1. Devtoolwatch Board, the week of Oct 25–31, 2026

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