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aiden – Let Your Computer Run Tasks Autonomously via Simple Prompts

Empower your startup to automate browsing, terminal commands, and workflows with a single AI-driven agent. Ideal for founders who need hands‑free productivity on Windows.

From the repo · “Aiden — Autonomous AI agent that operates your computer with prompts: browser control, terminal execution, workflows, tools, recovery systems, and persistent memory. Built solo. AGPL-3.0.”

864 stars+10★ this week150 forksTypeScriptGuide quality 8/10 · reviewed Oct 12Updated 10/19/2026100% free · open source
What it does

Aiden is an autonomous AI agent that automates computer operations using prompts, allowing founders to automate browser control, terminal execution, workflows, and more.

When to use it
  • •When you need to automate repetitive tasks on your computer
  • •When you want to create custom workflows using a simple prompt-based system
  • •When you need a tool that can recover from errors and maintain persistent memory
Ready-to-paste prompt
aiden prompt 'open https://www.example.com && click on_element_with_text:Hello World'
Heads up: Aiden requires Node.js to be installed on your system, and you need to have the necessary dependencies installed using npm before running Aiden
Saves to your device
Use with Claude
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✅ Light setup

Installs with a command or two; your AI agent can do it for you.

Try it instantly — no install
Claude Code
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/aiden && curl -fsSL https://workflowstacks.com/api/skills/aiden/claude-skill -o ~/.claude/skills/aiden/SKILL.md
Open in another AI app

Opens the app with this repo with the prompt ready to go — no copy-paste needed.

Connect the whole catalog (MCP)
claude mcp add --transport http workflowstacks https://workflowstacks.com/api/mcp

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What's inside — free to inspect

No purchase needed

Read the entire source before you build — unlike paid marketplaces that hide it behind a buy button.

35
top-level files
37
folders
133.6M
source size
AGPL-3.0
license
Key files
AGENTS.md
LICENSE-SKILLS.md
mcp-config-example.json
package.json
README.md
tsconfig.json
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dashboard-next/
docs/
electron/
evals/
installer/
integrations/
landing/
memory/
moat/
packages/
packaging/
personalities/
platform/
plugins/
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Details
Creator
taracodlabs
Language
TypeScript
Category
automation
Published
3/7/2026

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MCP config

Memory (knowledge graph) MCP config

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MCP config

Puppeteer (browser) MCP config

Let Claude control a headless browser — navigate, screenshot, scrape.

MCP config

Playwright (browser) MCP config

Drive a real browser for testing and automation from Claude.

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