Changelog Update

The Computer: Let Your Agents Work Safely with Files, Code, and More

🎯 What is it?

The Computer is a new capability that gives your agents access to an isolated, secure environment where they can work directly with files, run calculations, execute code and handle larger multi-step workflows. Optionally, you can authorize your Computer environment to make network requests to specific destinations.

💡 Why is it useful?

Until now, agents were limited when it came to tasks that required actually processing files, running code, or chaining together more complex operations. The Computer removes those limits by giving agents a safe, sandboxed space to get hands-on work done, so they can support richer and more demanding tasks end to end.

⚙️ How does it work?

Agents operate inside an isolated environment where they can safely manipulate files, perform computations, run code, and connect to external resources. Because the environment is sandboxed, this work happens securely without affecting your other systems. This also unlocks support for most external agent skills.

✨ Concrete Use Cases

Here's how you could use it:

File processing: Have an agent extract text from a PDF, clean up a spreadsheet, or convert and reorganize a set of documents.
Calculations & data work: Ask an agent to run numerical analysis or process a dataset and return the results.
Code execution: Let an agent write and run code to automate a task or test a quick script.
Larger workflows: Combine several steps, such as fetching data via a network request, transforming it, and producing a final output, in a single agent run.

📈 Benefits for you

More powerful agents and more efficient workflows. Tasks that previously required manual effort or couldn't be handled at all can now be completed directly by your agents, with broader support for external agent skills.

🚀 How to access it?

The Computer is available to everyone, with one exception: Enterprise workspaces that were not part of the beta. If that's your case, you can opt in at any time, and every workspace will automatically receive the feature within the next 2 weeks. You can learn more in the documentation.