What are Computer-Use Agents (CUA)?
- AI agents operating on computer
- Automated Task completion via GUIs, CLIs or APIs
- Can be reactive or proatctive
- Related concepts
- Browser-use agents: limited to only tasks within a browser
Why CUAs?
- Saving human efforts
- Accessibility
- Scale and Capability
- Speed and scale impossible for a human
- Assistance and Collaboration
- Simplifying complex workflows and reducing cognitive load
CUA Types
- Proactive vs reactive
- Reactive: triggered by user request, executed on demand
- Proactive: anticipates user request