Vision and Roadmap
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Vision
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Roadmap
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Here we provide a high-level road map for the project. We will update this road map as we make progress.
If you are interested in contributing to the project, please check the `CONTRIBUTING.md` for more details.

Road Map for Environment Infrastructure
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- ✓ Explore VMWare, and whether it can be connected and controlled through the mouse package
- ✓ Explore Windows and MacOS, whether they can be installed
  - MacOS is closed source and cannot be legally installed
  - Windows is available legally and can be installed
- ✓ Build a gym-like Python interface for controlling the VM
- ✓ Recording of actions (mouse movement, click, keyboard) for humans to annotate, and we can replay it and compress it
- ✓ Build a simple task, e.g. open a browser, open a website, click on a button, and close the browser
- ✓ Set up a pipeline and build agent implementation (zero-shot) for the task
- ✓ Start to design which tasks inside the DesktopENv to focus on, start to wrap up the environment to be public
- ✓ Start to annotate the examples for ~~training~~ and testing
- ✓ Error handling during file passing and file opening, etc.
- ✓ Add accessibility tree from the OS into the observation space
- ✓ Add pre-process and post-process action support for benchmarking setup and evaluation
- ✓ Experiment logging and visualization system
- ✓ Add more tasks, maybe scale to 300 for v1.0.0, and create a dynamic leaderboard
- ✓ Multiprocess support, can enable reinforcement learning to be more efficient
- ✓ Add support for automatic VM download and configuration, enable auto-scaling management
- ✓ VPN setup doc for those who need it
- ✓ Support running on platforms that have nested virtualization, AWS
- ✓ Be able to run without virtual machine platform VMware Pro, e.g. VirtualBox, or other platforms
- ☐ Support running on platforms that have nested virtualization, GCP
- ☐ Prepare for the first release of Windows vm image for the environment
- ☐ Add VNC-based video streaming as observation/actions for potential online-video understanding models to tackle tasks.

Road Map of Annotation Tool
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- ☐ Improve the annotation tool base on DuckTrack/OpenAdapt, and make it more robust which aligns on accessibility tree
- ☐ Annotate the steps of doing the task
- ☐ Crawl all resources we explored from the internet, and make it easy to access
- ☐ Set up ways for the crowdsourcing/community to contribute new examples