You probably want to give Claude a computer. I'm not sure you always want to give it your computer unless you're in the loop.
We have Linux instances running an IDE running in cloud vms that we can access through the browser at https://brilliant.mplode.dev. Personally I think this is closer to the ideal UX for operating an agent (our environment doesn't install agents by default yet, but you should be able to just install them manually). You don't have to do anything to set up terminal access or ssh except sign in and wait for your initial instance to start, and once you have any instance provisioned it automatically pauses and resumes based on whether your browser has it open. It's literally Claude + A personal Linux instance + an IDE that you can just open from a link
Pretty soon I should be able run as many of these at a time as I can afford, and control all of their permissions/filesystems/whatever with JWTs and containers. If it gets messed up or needs my attention I open it with the IDE as my UI and can just dive in and fix it. I don't need a regular Linux desktop environment or UI or anything. Just render things in panes of the IDE or launch a container serving a webapp doing what I want and open it instead of the IDE. Haven't ever felt this excited about tech progress
We have Linux instances running an IDE running in cloud vms that we can access through the browser at https://brilliant.mplode.dev. Personally I think this is closer to the ideal UX for operating an agent (our environment doesn't install agents by default yet, but you should be able to just install them manually). You don't have to do anything to set up terminal access or ssh except sign in and wait for your initial instance to start, and once you have any instance provisioned it automatically pauses and resumes based on whether your browser has it open. It's literally Claude + A personal Linux instance + an IDE that you can just open from a link
Pretty soon I should be able run as many of these at a time as I can afford, and control all of their permissions/filesystems/whatever with JWTs and containers. If it gets messed up or needs my attention I open it with the IDE as my UI and can just dive in and fix it. I don't need a regular Linux desktop environment or UI or anything. Just render things in panes of the IDE or launch a container serving a webapp doing what I want and open it instead of the IDE. Haven't ever felt this excited about tech progress