# 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).

## Facts
- **Category:** [Agent Infrastructure](https://agentsearchengine.app/category/agent-infrastructure)
- **Type:** Infrastructure
- **Pricing:** Open source
- **GitHub stars:** 20,874
- **Language:** Python
- **License:** MIT
- **Last repo activity:** today (Aug 3, 2026)
- **Official site:** https://cua.ai
- **Source code:** https://github.com/trycua/cua
- **Listing on Agent Search Engine:** https://agentsearchengine.app/agents/cua
- **Data verified:** July 2026

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

## Avoid if
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:

_From the project's README._

## Install

```
pip install cua
```

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