About this list

The GUI Agents Paper List is a curated, openly maintained index of research on agents that interact with graphical user interfaces — on the web, on mobile, on desktop, and across general-GUI settings.

This site is a presentation layer: every paper, link, author, and tag here lives in papers.yaml. The site adds search, filters, visualizations, and an auto-generated BibTeX export, while the structured YAML file remains the source of truth. Entries can also include source links for OpenReview, publisher pages, homepages, code, and datasets.

Scope

The main list ("canonical") only includes papers whose main contribution directly studies GUI agents — including models, frameworks, benchmarks, datasets, GUI grounding, planning, memory, safety, security, and reinforcement learning for GUI tasks.

Papers that are useful supporting context but not directly about GUI agents — for instance reused foundation models, general multimodal methods, generic agent infrastructure, or non-browser search agents — go into a separate list, adjacent papers. They are intentionally excluded from browse defaults and stats so the main signal stays scoped.

How papers are added

Each entry has a fixed nine-field structure: title · link · authors · institutions · date · publisher · envs · keywords · TLDR. The repository's contribution guide describes the canonical formatting rules — keyword conventions, environment tags, date format — and a local pipeline regenerates the README, its groupings, and the statistics figures whenever the structured YAML changes.

For dates, we always use the earliest known public release: arXiv v1 / first preprint over a later venue version, so the date reflects the work's true age rather than the latest revision.

Contribute

• Suggest a paper: open an issue with the title, link, and any relevant details.
• Fix metadata: every paper card has an "Edit on GitHub" link that takes you to the entry's exact line in papers.yaml.
• Add yourself: edit papers.yaml, run bash scripts/update_repo.sh, and submit a PR with the regenerated diff. The schema is documented in the repo's CLAUDE.md.

A note on the site

This site is intentionally narrow. It only shows what's in the public YAML — no abstracts, no hidden metadata, no opaque scoring. If you'd like to see something added, the path is the same as adding any other change: edit the source, open a PR.

If this list helps your work, please consider starring the repo — it's the simplest signal that helps others find it.