agent/papers/items/2026-2606-24551-gui-vs-cli-execution-bottlenecks-in-screen-only-and-skill-mediated-computer-use-.md

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 methods:

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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