Claude as Your Computer
Advanced users curious about computer use and remote dispatch
Prerequisites: Module 03. Paid personal plan. Desktop app.
Last verified 2026-07-28
Learning objectives
- Enable computer use and browser use safely, including app-level denials
- Pair the phone app with the desktop (dispatch) and assign tasks remotely
- Write computer-use prompts for multi-step web workflows
- Set up a scheduled task that runs unattended
- Apply sensible safety boundaries (password managers denied, financial actions excluded, review before send)
What's in this module
5 lessons · 6 exercises · ~5 min reading
Starts withWhat changed~1 minExecutive summary
You will learn how Claude operates your computer directly, and how to set that up without giving away the keys. End state is a safely configured computer-use setup with sensitive apps denied, your phone paired, and one supervised task completed. After this module you can assign desktop tasks from your phone, schedule unattended recurring jobs, and apply hard boundaries around credentials and irreversible actions.
Sources
- Claude Help Center, "Let Claude use your computer in Cowork", the consumer-facing version of this capability, and the permissions around it: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14128542-let-claude-use-your-computer-in-cowork
- Claude Help Center, "Use Claude Cowork safely", required reading before handing over the machine: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13364135-use-claude-cowork-safely
- Anthropic, "Computer use tool", what the model actually receives and returns when it drives a screen: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/computer-use-tool
- Ruben Hassid, "Claude is now YOUR computer": https://ruben.substack.com/p/claude-computer
- Anthropic computer-use demo and best-practices reference implementation: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-quickstarts (computer-use-demo, computer-use-best-practices, browser-use-demo)
Prefer the live room?
This module also runs inside our in-person bootcamps and workshops in Copenhagen.
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