# cua shipped an update

> Source: <https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/cua>
> Published: 2026-08-03 05:58:25+00:00

# cua

Open-source infrastructure for Computer-Use Agents. Sandboxes, SDKs, and benchmarks to train and evaluate AI agents that can control full desktops (macOS, Linux, Windows).

Background computer-use across macOS, Windows, and Linux without stealing focus.

You need a runtime older than Python 3.11.

## About cua

Building your own agent? Start with Cua · Giving a coding agent a computer? Cua Drivers · Evaluating or training models? Cua Bench · Need macOS VMs? Lume

Drive native desktop apps in the background. Agents click, type, and verify without stealing the cursor or focus. Use the same CLI and MCP server on macOS and Windows from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, OpenClaw, and custom clients. Linux support is available as a pre-release backend while platform testing is still in progress.

Then wire it into Claude Code as an MCP server and your agent can drive the desktop in the background:

cua is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 21k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in August 2026.

```
pip install cua
```

## cua vs. the alternatives

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