# Paper: GUI vs. CLI: Execution Bottlenecks in Screen-Only and Skill-Mediated Computer-Use Agents

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type: paper
title: "GUI vs. CLI: Execution Bottlenecks in Screen-Only and Skill-Mediated Computer-Use Agents"
authors: Xiao Zhou, Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Jinbiao Wei, Tingyu Song, Arman Cohan, Chen Zhao
year: 2026
venue: arXiv
url: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24551
code_url:
source: arxiv
collected_at: 2026-07-08
published_at: 2026-06-22
updated_at: 2026-06-22
status: queued
relevance: high
topics:
  - agent-evaluation
  - computer-use
  - planning
  - rag
  - reasoning
  - tool-use
  - workflow-agent
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datasets:
  - cs.AI
related_concepts:
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related_jobs:
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collection_score: 15
collection_queries: web-gui-agent
---

## One-line Takeaway

Auto-collected from arXiv because it matched the Agent collection queries. Needs human skim.

## Why Collected

- matched queries: web-gui-agent
- inferred topics: agent-evaluation, computer-use, planning, rag, reasoning, tool-use, workflow-agent
- arXiv categories: cs.AI
- collection score: 15

## Review Checklist

- Does this paper directly inform Agent architecture, evaluation, memory, tools, safety, coding agents, GUI/browser agents, or multi-agent workflows?
- Does it include a benchmark, dataset, code, or reproducible experimental setup?
- Should it be promoted from `queued` to `skimmed` or `summarized`?

## Links

- arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.24551