Cua
6 Tools · 52 Intel
Cua is a Y Combinator Spring 2025 startup founded by Francesco Bonacci, previously an engineer at Xbox and Microsoft AI, that builds open-source sandboxed VM infrastructure for AI agents that control full desktop operating systems across macOS, Linux, and Windows. The project has amassed over 19,000 GitHub stars and has been adopted by research teams at Google DeepMind, Nous Research, and Snorkel AI.
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Bootstraps macOS sandboxes for computer-use AI agents that drive real apps in the trycua ecosystem.
HashiCorp Packer plugin that builds macOS VM images with Lume for agent workloads.
Agent-ready desktops on Mac, Linux, or your own cloud, with session teleport and a local Keyvault.
Gives AI agents their own full desktops on your Mac, owned machines, or cloud, with app session teleporting
Sample project showing how to run an agent in a cloud sandbox with the Cua Python SDK.
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Cua's App-Use feature scopes an agent's view and control to specific applications via lightweight visual filters rather than new processes, enabling multiple agents to work in parallel on different apps on the same machine.
Cua got official Omarchy 4.0.1 (Arch Linux + Hyprland) running unmodified in an ARM64 VM on Apple Silicon via Lume and Apple's Virtualization.framework, verifying boot, input, networking, and native ARM64 Chromium, while noting real gaps like software-only graphics.
Explains why Cua chose Docker plus KasmVNC over QEMU/KVM for its Ubuntu desktop sandboxes: faster cold starts, no hypervisor or kernel-module requirements, and identical behavior across macOS, Windows, Linux, and CI runners.