# Universe legacy GUI interaction client

An archived Gym-compatible client that exposes screen observations and keyboard/mouse actions over VNC for remote application and browser environments, including the historical World of Bits integration.

- Catalog URL: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/github-openai-universe/
- Original source: https://github.com/openai/universe
- Kind: infrastructure
- Review: curated
- Scope: adjacent
- Environments: web, desktop
- Topics: automation, reinforcement-learning, history
- Evidence checked: 2026-10-17T11:20:17Z
- ID: github:openai/universe

## Limitations

GitHub marks this repository archived, and the README declares the library deprecated. It contains the client side of Universe; the README says remote-environment source repositories would be released separately. Original MiniWoB task-server or container availability was not established: alpha.openai.com no longer resolved in this audit and the official Quay tag metadata endpoint returned 401. This entry records the released client infrastructure, not a currently runnable original MiniWoB benchmark. Legacy host requirements are documented; no container or code was executed.

- Record JSON: https://awesomecua.github.io/resources/github-openai-universe/record.json

## License declarations

- code: MIT — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/universe/HEAD/LICENSE
- data: not recorded
- document: not recorded
- weights: not recorded

- code review: Official Universe client-source LICENSE; no license or availability claim is transferred to external remote applications or container contents.
  Sources: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/universe/HEAD/LICENSE

## Primary evidence

- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/universe/HEAD/README.rst (retrieved 2026-10-17T11:20:17Z; SHA-256 b1ca938480d4d36c76fa939c5b10cef11c24465cc1a6a8ee857cec4b939f9d61)
- https://api.github.com/repos/openai/universe (retrieved 2026-10-17T11:18:15Z; SHA-256 94a7a4d383f754b96601bc0486b90e62760b8bfc35abc607077c8eb6e7934b2d)
- https://api.github.com/repos/openai/universe/git/trees/master?recursive=1 (retrieved 2026-10-17T11:19:47Z; SHA-256 1808d7524506d1386dad507de8a8fa0f89080443a970ae032cea4c204699d113)
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openai/universe/HEAD/LICENSE (retrieved 2026-10-17T11:23:05Z; SHA-256 ecd4a4aacc4512a31bbdc3252ffc014d37ac7ef56ed34bc2a5d0f6337df6daa5)