I Built an Open-Source AI Agent That Actually Controls Your Computer

A developer has released HeyAgent, an open-source autonomous AI agent designed for computer control and workflow automation. The agent plans, executes, and validates outcomes to reduce false task completion, and it supports both cloud and local models. AWS provided cloud infrastructure, GPU resources, and AI services to accelerate development.

AI agents are everywhere in 2026. Most of them can answer questions, generate code, or automate simple workflows. But once you ask them to interact with a real computer—browsers, desktop applications, terminals, files, and external services—things quickly become unreliable. That was the motivation behind HeyAgent . Most autonomous agents fail for one of three reasons: I wanted to build an agent that behaves more like a real assistant instead of just another LLM wrapper. HeyAgent is an open-source autonomous AI agent for computer control and workflow automation. It can: Instead of blindly executing prompts, the agent plans, executes, validates the outcome, and only then reports success. One of the biggest problems I noticed in existing AI agents is false task completion. Many agents click a button, assume everything worked, and immediately report success. In reality, something may have failed several steps earlier. HeyAgent performs additional verification after critical actions to reduce false positives and improve reliability during long-running workflows. HeyAgent has been significantly accelerated thanks to the support of AWS. AWS has provided the project with cloud infrastructure, GPU computing resources, and access to modern AI services that made rapid experimentation possible throughout development. From running GPU workloads to evaluating different LLMs and AI models, AWS has been an important part of the engineering process. Their continued support allows us to iterate faster, test new ideas, and focus on improving the product instead of worrying about infrastructure limitations. We're genuinely grateful to AWS for supporting open-source innovation and continuing to help us build HeyAgent. The goal isn't to lock developers into one model. Whether you prefer cloud providers or local models, HeyAgent is designed to work with both. AI agents shouldn't become black boxes. Developers should be able to inspect the reasoning flow, build their own tools, contribute improvements, and adapt the platform to their own workflows. That's why HeyAgent is fully open source. Development is moving fast, and we're actively working on: If you're building AI agents, automation tools, or desktop software, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Feedback, ideas, bug reports, and pull requests are always welcome. ⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/SAFIYEV/HeyAgent https://github.com/SAFIYEV/HeyAgent A huge thank you again to AWS for supporting HeyAgent with cloud infrastructure, compute resources, and AI services. Their continued support has played an important role in bringing this project to life.