JarvisGUI: Towards Cross-Device GUI Agents with Dynamic Task Composition
Zixiang Chen, Yuheng Lu, Zihao Cheng, Zeming Liu, Jizeng Bai, Ziye Huang, et al.
arXiv:2609.10451v1Today’s most interesting paper is JarvisGUI, a benchmark for cross-device GUI agents. The problem it tackles is simple to describe but hard for AI systems to handle: real workflows don’t stay on one screen or one operating system. People copy something from a phone, continue on Windows, then finish on Linux, all while preserving state and context. Most GUI benchmarks ignore that and test only single-device, fixed tasks, which can make agents look much more capable than they really are. JarvisGUI introduces dynamically composed workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu, using a lightweight type system to connect steps and automatically evaluate whether an agent can carry information across devices. The key result is sobering: today’s best open-source GUI agents still struggle with state transfer, cross-platform reasoning, and long-horizon dependencies. That matters because it pinpoints a major gap between demo-worthy agents and systems ready for real-world use.
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