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Source-linked workflows that name computer-use. Part of the AI agent use cases on UsecaseBoard, or browse all use cases.
ZDNET's hands-on had Claude Cowork on Mac find five recent Documents files, summarize a month of Calendar, create a Notes to-do, and draft a Mail message summarizing a document—self-correcting a To/subject mixup—while asking per-app permission each session.
Claude Code's macOS computer-use preview can write Swift, compile/launch a menu-bar app, click through controls, and screenshot results in the same session—plus drive GUI-only tools and iOS Simulator when MCP/bash/browser tools aren't enough.
Tongyi-MAI open-sources OpenGCUA (GUI+code harness, harness-to-model decisions, cross-device SDK; OSWorld-v2 +19.6 pts / −53% steps across 8 models) and MAI-Gym (up to 20k parallel RL envs; MAI-Gym-9B 78.4% MobileWorld / 76.2% OSWorld-Verified). Code + arXiv:2610.22200 / 2610.20939.
Rich Silver used Grok Bot to guide calibration, create artwork and prepare an engraving job for his 60W fiber laser.
Ilia Karelin used Claude computer use to read his own X feed and suggest four newsletter stories with editorial angles.
A Lobsters introduction points to Cua-Bench, an open-source framework for evaluating computer-use agents across operating-system and UI variations rather than assuming one successful interface generalizes.