Cua releases Cua Spaces for free, handing agents a whole Mac desktop
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Cua, which builds computer-use agents, released Cua Spaces for macOS on October 2. It is free and source-available. The app gives each agent a desktop, called a Space, which can be a macOS virtual machine built locally on your Mac or a Linux image, and can also run on a Mac mini or Linux machine you own or in your own cloud. "Teleport" moves a signed-in app such as Chrome or Slack into a Space, with the session kept encrypted on your Mac and passed to the Space only after you approve. You and the agent can work on the same desktop with separate cursors, and you can step in to make a choice and hand it back.
@viticci said he set up a Space on an M3 Ultra Mac Studio and let Claude inside T3 Code drive eight Xcode simulators on it. @argofowl posted a comparison, noting that Claude Code can call Codex's computer-use feature, a local MCP server in the ChatGPT Mac app. On an eight-task test, Codex's engine solved six and Cua's driver solved three or four at four times the cost, because Cua's background mode relies on accessibility APIs alone and canvases and drags do not land.