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AI · October 23, 2024

Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine

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Agent.exe, a cross-platform app to let 3.5 Sonnet control your machine launched on October 23, 2024 with 406 votes, #85 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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Agent.exe is a cross-platform application that enables Claude 3.5 Sonnet to control a user's machine. The tool is designed for developers and users who want to delegate system tasks to an AI assistant. It launched on GitHub in October 2024 and allows the AI model to interact directly with the computer's operating system and applications through a programmatic interface.

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Note : please consider this project a proof of concept. I don't intend to maintain it or merge pull requests. Feel free to fork and build it into something great! Presenting Agent.exe : the easiest way to let Claude's new computer use capabilities take over your computer! I wanted to see how good Claude's new computer use APIs were, and the default project they provided felt too heavyweight. This is a simple Electron app that lets Claude 3.5 Sonnet control your local computer directly. I was planning on adding a "semi-auto" mode where the user has to confirm each action before it executes, but each step is so slow I found that wasn't necessary and if the model is getting confused you can…from github.com

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