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Put Claude to work on your computer.

It opens your apps, navigates your browser, fills in spreadsheets — anything you'd do sitting at your desk. Available in Claude Cowork and Claude Code.

Announced March 23, 2026

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Put Claude to work on your computer, from anywhere — send tasks from your phone via Dispatch, Claude executes on your desktop.

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See the Screen

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Plan the Action

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Execute the Task

What is Computer Use?

Computer Use lets Claude see your screen by capturing screenshots, understand what's on it, and take action — clicking, typing, scrolling, and switching between apps. It's how Claude goes from answering questions to actually doing the work.

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Screen Vision

Claude captures screenshots and perceives UI elements — buttons, menus, text fields, tables — understanding your desktop like a human would.

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Desktop Control

Full mouse and keyboard control. Claude clicks, types, scrolls, drags, and uses keyboard shortcuts across any application on your desktop.

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Autonomous Execution

Multi-step tasks without hand-holding. Claude plans, executes, verifies, and course-corrects — powered by Opus 4.6 with 1M context window.

How It Works

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Claude Sees

Captures a screenshot of your screen to understand the current state — what app is open, what's on the page, where the cursor is.

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Claude Thinks

Uses Opus 4.6 reasoning to plan the next action. It considers the task goal, current screen state, and the most efficient path forward.

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Claude Acts

Executes precise mouse clicks, keyboard input, or shell commands. Then captures a new screenshot to verify the result and plan the next step.

Human-Level Performance

On OSWorld — the industry standard benchmark for computer use agents — Claude has reached human expert level in just 16 months.

72.5% Claude Sonnet 4.6 Feb 2026

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72.4% Human Expert OSWorld Baseline

16-Month Evolution on OSWorld

Sonnet 3.5

14.9%

Oct 2024

Sonnet 3.7

28.0%

Feb 2025

Sonnet 4

42.2%

May 2025

Sonnet 4.5

61.4%

Oct 2025

Sonnet 4.6

72.5%

Feb 2026

Human Expert

72.4%

OSWorld Baseline

What Can Claude Do on Your Computer?

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Browse & Research

Navigate websites, fill out forms, extract data from web pages, and compile research — all through the actual browser.

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Autofix CI Errors

Monitor your CI pipeline, detect broken builds, diagnose failures, and push fixes — all while you sleep. Used internally at Anthropic.

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Sync Documentation

Automatically push documentation updates across repositories. Claude patrols codebases, identifies stale docs, and keeps everything current.

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Cross-Language Maintenance

Maintain a Go twin of a Python library — or any cross-language mirror. Claude keeps both codebases in sync, 7 days a week.

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Spreadsheet Automation

Open Excel or Google Sheets, fill in data, apply formulas, format cells, generate charts — real spreadsheet work, not just text output.

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Multi-App Workflows

Chain actions across multiple desktop apps. Pull data from email, paste into a spreadsheet, generate a chart, insert it into a presentation.

The team has been using /schedule as infrastructure. Auto-fixing CI errors, auto-pushing doc updates — everything you'd want running in the background when your laptop is closed. We even have a scheduled task that maintains a Go twin of an active Python library.

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Noah Zweben

Product Manager, Claude Code at Anthropic

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Auto-fix CI

Detect and repair broken builds autonomously

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Sync Docs

Push documentation updates across repos

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Cross-Language Sync

Maintain Go twin of Python library 24/7

The Computer Use Landscape

Multiple AI companies are building computer use agents. Here's how they compare.

Product	Provider	Approach	Platform
Computer Use	Anthropic	Local desktop + browser control	macOS (Cowork & Code)
Operator	OpenAI	Sandboxed browser environment	Web (ChatGPT Pro)
Personal Computer	Perplexity	Cloud + local Mac mini hybrid	Mac mini (dedicated)
My Computer	Meta (Manus)	Local Mac/PC agent	macOS, Windows

Availability & Requirements

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Computer Use is currently in research preview. Anthropic notes this capability is still early compared to Claude's ability to code or interact with text.

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