Show HN: Tine – Drive Wayland Around with Agents

Category: devtools

Tags: desktop-automation, wayland, ai-agents, accessibility, cli-tool

Score: 7.5/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

Tine is a CLI bridge that enables AI agents to control GNOME Wayland desktops by reading the screen via AT-SPI2 accessibility trees, OCR, and labeled grids, and injecting input at the kernel level via /dev/uinput. It's interesting because it solves the Linux/Wayland automation gap for AI agents, bypassing restrictive portal dialogs with a clever multi-modal approach to UI interaction.

Target audience: devops, backend devs, ai engineers

Repository: https://github.com/smythp/tine · Python · Apache-2.0 · 9 stars

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