A desktop of its own, not your laptop
The agent works on a machine in the cloud. Your own screen, files and logins are not involved, and your computer can be closed.
Each session is a small Linux desktop in the cloud with Chromium open on it. An AI agent operates it over MCP. You watch it in the page and take over when you want.
A session is a small Linux desktop: an X display, a window manager, and Chromium, always open. It is not a full workstation. There is no terminal and no other application; see What is on the desktop.
Each session has:
Today an agent operates the browser on the desktop: it opens pages, clicks, types, reads and takes screenshots, through code it runs with run_js. Control of the whole desktop with mouse and keyboard, the way a person at the screen has it, is planned and not available yet. Until then, the parts outside a web page (a file chooser, a permission prompt) are yours to do in the live view.
Live, coming and planned lists exactly what works now.
| If you want to | Read |
|---|---|
| Learn by doing | Your first desktop, then Connect an agent with Claude |
| Get one thing done | How-to guides |
| Look something up | What is on the desktop, MCP endpoint and tools, Session states, Limits |
| Understand how it behaves | Computer use on a Linux desktop, Sleep and wake, Security model |
Not available yet: