> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://qitor.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Desktop Benchmark Starter

> How the official desktop benchmark path fits the v0.5 QitOS story.

# Desktop Benchmark Starter

QitOS v0.5 now has one canonical multimodal path:

* `DesktopEnv`
* the `desktop-starter` benchmark
* `qitos.recipes.desktop.osworld_starter`
* `examples/real/openai_cua_agent.py`
* qita visual replay

This is the path to use if you want a credible starting point for computer-use research.

## Why this is the release path

The desktop starter benchmark is the first path where QitOS can say:

* one benchmark family is official
* one baseline agent is canonical
* one qita debugging workflow is documented
* one artifact (a persistent output from a run) schema is reused end to end

Completing one path end to end matters more than shipping several half-complete multimodal demos.

## What the starter includes

* OSWorld-inspired desktop task shape
* screenshot-backed observations (the data returned by the environment after each action)
* optional a11y / OCR / DOM / UI candidates
* provider-neutral GUI actions
* planner + grounding + action selector + critic (a step-level validator that can allow, stop, or retry) baseline loop
* qita screenshot timeline, playback preview, and basic overlays

## What it does not promise yet

* full official OSWorld runtime parity
* rich accessibility-tree execution across every provider
* enterprise-grade approval governance
* full visual replay depth planned for v0.6

The right mental model is:

**v0.5 = one complete starter path**

not

**v0.5 = every possible multimodal path finished**

When you need the real benchmark adapter rather than the starter path, move to `osworld`.