Computer use in the Claude app (research preview)
Computer use research preview opens to Claude Pro and Max, letting Claude work directly on a user's screen in the desktop app.
Brings the 2024 API capability into the consumer and prosumer app, so Claude can open apps, drive the browser and run tools on the user's machine, with connectors preferred first. Released alongside Dispatch improvements for remotely assigning tasks.
- Date
- Monday, 23 March 2026
- Lab
- Anthropic
- Kind
- feature
- Access
- research preview
Date and scope are from Claude release notes; the original announcement was not opened. The computer use tool reached API general availability on 2026-08-19.
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