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AI · March 16, 2025

Computer – Build Your Manus AI Agent with an OSS macOS Sandbox

We just open-sourced Computer, a Computer-Use Interface (CUI) framework that enables AI agents to interact with isolated macOS and Linux sandboxes, with near-native performance on Apple Silicon. Computer provides a PyAutoGUI-compatible interface that can be plugged into any AI agent system (OpenAI Agents SDK , Langchain, CrewAI, AutoGen, etc.). Why Computer? As CUA AI agents become more capable, they need secure environments to operate in. Computer solves this with: • Isolation: Run agents in sandboxes completely separate from your host system. • Reliability: Create reproducible environments…

Computer – Build Your Manus AI Agent with an OSS macOS Sandbox launched on March 16, 2025 with 11 votes, #2,427 of 7,215 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

In plain words

Computer is an open-source framework that lets AI agents interact with isolated macOS and Linux sandboxes with near-native performance on Apple Silicon. It provides a PyAutoGUI-compatible interface compatible with OpenAI Agents SDK, Langchain, CrewAI, and AutoGen. The tool emphasizes security through sandboxing, allowing agents to operate in completely isolated environments separate from the host system, while maintaining reliability and giving users control to monitor and terminate workflows.

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From the sources

Scale computer-use 2.0 with open-source drivers, cross-OS fleets, and benchmarks for training, evaluation, and data generation. - trycua/cua

In the maker’s words, at launch

We just open-sourced Computer, a Computer-Use Interface (CUI) framework that enables AI agents to interact with isolated macOS and Linux sandboxes, with near-native performance on Apple Silicon. Computer provides a PyAutoGUI-compatible interface that can be plugged into any AI agent system (OpenAI Agents SDK…

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