Hosts
The browser cannot choose This PC or SSH; that is host placement, not a missing option. A Cloud bot still has a full desktop and a shell.
Open desktop and Sleep
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Open a bot you own
Guests cannot drive a bot.
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Choose Open desktop
The guest starts. The rail reads Connecting only while the guest is starting.
3
Watch it work
The live screen shows what the bot sees and does — pages it opens, controls it clicks, files it edits.
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Choose Sleep when you are done
The guest hibernates. The next active turn wakes it before the model is prompted, so the bot never has to apologise that it has no shell.
Rail states
What the bot can do on its computer
The computer-use tools let the bot look (screenshot), point precisely (grounded_click), type, press hotkeys, scroll, drag, wait, open and switch apps, save a note, and hand a coding task to code_agent. The planner describes the control it wants; a second inference call returns the exact framebuffer coordinates, so the planner never guesses raw pixels. A browser tool and a shell round it out. Full list: Tools.
Dangerous computer steps park behind Approvals before they run.
Three machines, again
A bot’s desktop cannot see a Code repository, and a Code session cannot reach a bot’s screen. See Security.
Related
- How Bot works — the turn that wakes a hibernated guest.
- Routines — scheduled work on the same computer.
- Troubleshooting

