ByteDance has open-sourced a more powerful agent than Manus: TARS
ByteDance's latest open source AI agent TARS is more powerful than Manus and helps in-depth research and complex workflows.
Core content:
1. TARS's multimodal features and seamless integration with web pages and command lines
2. Advanced browser operations and comprehensive tool support to improve workflow efficiency
3. Developer-friendly framework design to simplify integration and custom workflow creation
Agent TARS is an open source multimodal AI agent that can visually parse web content and integrate seamlessly with the command line and file system. It is also suitable for in-depth research, operating system functions, and complex workflows.
The main features are more powerful than Manus:
- Advanced Browser Operations : Perform complex tasks such as deep research and operational capabilities through an agent framework for comprehensive planning and execution.
- Comprehensive tool support : Integrated search, file editing, command line, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) tools to handle complex workflows.
- Enhanced desktop application : New UI design, including browser display, multimodal elements, session management, model configuration, dialog flow visualization, and browser/search state tracking.
- Workflow Orchestration : Seamlessly connect GUI agent tools - search, browse, explore links, and synthesize information into final output.
- Developer-friendly framework : simplifies integration with UI-TARS and creation of custom workflows for GUI agent projects.
Agent TARS usage
Necessary Configuration
Before you begin, some necessary configuration is required.
Click the button in the lower left corner to open the configuration page:
Then you can set the model configuration and search configuration.
For the model configuration, you can set the model provider and API key:
For Azure OpenAI, there are more parameters that can be set, including apiVersion, deploymentName, and endpoint.
For search configuration, you can set the search provider and API key:
Enter the task directly in the input box. TARS also supports Human In the Loop, which means you can interact with the agent during the work process through the input box.
If you want to change the direction of the current agency work, you can insert new ideas in the special input box at the top and press Enter to send it.
You can also share the conversation with others through the share button on the top menu.
