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Computer Use in production works today for narrow, repetitive interface tasks where a human still checks the result. Anthropic shipped it in October 2024 calling it experimental and error-prone, and nine months on that framing still holds: teams run it on real work by constraining scope, not by trusting it end to end.
Computer Use is the Claude API feature, launched by Anthropic on 22 October 2024, that lets the model view screenshots and move the mouse, type, and click inside a loop your own system executes and controls. It works well on apps without an API and fails on CAPTCHAs, highly dynamic interfaces, and long tasks.
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