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Agent Zero Desktop

This Desktop is Agent Zero's habitat: a visible, stateful Linux workspace where humans and agents can share files, launch tools, inspect results, and turn reasoning into observable work.

You can choose your harness, but now you and A0 have a habitat.

Here, the model reasons, the environment remembers, the user grants permission, and the work leaves artifacts that can be opened, tested, revised, and trusted. It is a small workshop for the larger idea: agents become more useful when they have a safe world to act in, not only more instructions to carry.

With gratitude to the open-source foundations that make this affordance possible:

• Xpra, for carrying a live Linux desktop through the browser, making this desktop environment usable by AI agents.
• Kali Linux, for the practical Linux craft and tool culture that make capable workspaces feel natural.
• LibreOffice, for giving this habitat a serious office bench: documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and decades of open document stewardship.
• Xfce, for a fast, humane desktop that stays out of the way and lets the work breathe.
• Jan Tomášek, for creating Agent Zero and making this whole workshop possible.

Agent Zero stands on this craft with respect. Open source is not just code we consume; it is shared affordance, accumulated care, and an invitation to build systems that are powerful without becoming opaque.

Open the Terminal

Double-click Terminal on this Desktop. You will land in the Agent Zero workdir, where agent CLIs can inspect files, edit projects, and run commands inside the Linux environment.

Before installing an agent, make a small safety habit:

pwd
node -v || true
npm -v || true
python3 --version || true
curl --version | head -1 || true

Agent CLIs are powerful. Install from official sources, avoid sudo npm install -g unless the project explicitly requires it, and keep API keys in your shell or provider login flow rather than pasting secrets into documents.

Install Your Favorite Agent

These commands were checked against official docs or project READMEs on 2026-05-02. Package names matter.

OpenAI Codex

npm i -g @openai/codex
codex

Claude Code

Recommended native installer:

curl -fsSL https://claude.ai/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
claude

NPM alternative:

npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
claude

Gemini CLI

npm install -g @google/gemini-cli
gemini

Aider

curl -LsSf https://aider.chat/install.sh | sh
source ~/.bashrc
aider

OpenCode

curl -sL https://opencode.ai/install | bash
opencode

NPM alternative:

npm i -g opencode
opencode

Goose

curl -fsSL https://github.com/aaif-goose/goose/releases/download/stable/download_cli.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
goose

OpenHands CLI

python3 -m pip install uv
uv tool install openhands --python 3.12
openhands

Qwen Code

npm install -g @qwen-code/qwen-code@latest
qwen

Cursor Agent

curl https://cursor.com/install -fsS | bash
source ~/.bashrc
cursor-agent

Hermes Agent

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/NousResearch/hermes-agent/main/scripts/install.sh | bash
source ~/.bashrc
hermes

OpenClaw

OpenClaw recommends Node 24, or Node 22.14+.

npm install -g openclaw@latest
openclaw onboard --install-daemon

If in doubt, start with Codex or Claude Code for coding, Aider for a lighter patch-focused loop, Goose or OpenHands for a broader local agent, and Hermes or OpenClaw when you want the agent to grow into more of a persistent runtime working together with Agent Zero.

Official references: Codex, Claude Code, Gemini CLI, Aider, OpenCode, Goose, OpenHands, Qwen Code, Cursor Agent, Hermes Agent, OpenClaw.