A Guide to Anthropic Computer Use

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Anthropic Computer Use demo using docker
  • Demo
  • How to run it
• Anthropic Computer Use using Open-Interpreter
• Anthropic Computer Use by Replit

Introduction

Anthropic Computer use is a new feature from Anthropic that let’s AI models use computers directly like the way a human would do. Some of the things it could is see what’s on the screen, click on a particular button or a link, fill in forms on websites, use GUI apps, etc.

There are multiple ways to try out this feature, some of which are listed below:

Anthropic Computer Use demo using docker

Demo

How to run it

Prereq:
1. get an anthropic API key
2. install docker

Run demo app:
1. add API key to your env

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=%your_api_key%

2. run docker command

export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=%your_api_key%
docker run \
-e ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=$ANTHROPIC_API_KEY \
-v $HOME/.anthropic:/home/computeruse/.anthropic \
-p 5900:5900 \
-p 8501:8501 \
-p 6080:6080 \
-p 8080:8080 \
-it ghcr.io/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts:computer-use-demo-latest

3. open http://localhost:8080

more info – https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-quickstarts/tree/main/computer-use-demo

Anthropic Computer Use using Open-Interpreter

demo

Anthropic Computer Use by Replit

Replit Anthropic Computer Use Demo