Show HN: Drive any macOS app in the background without stealing the cursor

Category: infrastructure

Tags: computer-use, ui-automation, macos, ai-agents, sandbox

Score: 8.3/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 8)

Cua is an open-source platform and SDK for building, benchmarking, and deploying computer-use agents that can autonomously control macOS, Windows, Linux, and Android applications without stealing focus or cursor. It innovatively combines background UI automation, multi-OS virtualization via QEMU, and a unified API for AI agents, making it a powerful tool for agentic automation and research.

Target audience: AI engineers, backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/trycua/cua · HTML · MIT · 14666 stars

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