Cue Computer
A Linux computer the agent fully controls, with optional human access to the same environment
Cue Computer is a Linux computer an agent fully controls. The agent uses a browser, works with files, runs commands and long-running processes, installs tools, and builds and runs software on it.
This is what "the agent has a computer of its own" means literally. The agent is not borrowing your laptop and not confined to a chat window; it has a machine, and what it does there persists between sessions.
Cue Computer is the agent's machine. Cue CLI runs an agent from your own terminal. Both are ways to give an agent somewhere to work, and an agent can have either or both.
What the human gets
The agent's computer is not opaque to you. Two surfaces open onto the same environment the agent is working in:
- Code Server — a browser-based editor and terminal. Inspect what the agent did, or work alongside it in the same files.
- Desktop — a graphical session, for work that needs a real screen rather than a terminal.
Both are optional. An agent does not need you to watch it work, and most of the time you will read what it produced rather than the environment it produced it in.
Where it runs
Cue Computer is hosted by default, so nothing is installed on your own machine and the agent keeps working when your laptop is closed. The same workspace can also be self-hosted if you would rather run the container yourself.
A hosted computer can pause when idle and resume later with its files intact. While it is paused its services are unavailable, so anything that must stay continuously reachable — a long-lived background process, a service answering requests — needs a computer that stays awake rather than one that sleeps.
What runs on it
The environment arrives with common languages, package managers, and developer tools already installed, so an agent can start working without building its toolchain first. It can install whatever else it needs.
Other agent runtimes can run on a Cue Computer as well. OpenClaw is documented for exactly this: a separate agent runtime installed inside the computer, using its own configuration alongside Cue's.