Anthropic released their new Claude Sonnet 3.5 model yesterday that has a new capability to control computers. Computer Use capability allows Claude to directly interact with computer interfaces, enabling tasks like web browsing, data analysis, and file manipulation – all through natural language instructions. Similar to tools, but now you don’t have to define specific tools. I think this opens up a whole new window of opportunities to leverage LLMs for.
Anthropic shared a quick start guide to run the model in a container, but the instructions are for Mac/Linux based workstations. I had to make some tweaks to run them on a windows workstation.
Documenting them for anyone that might be trying to do the same
- Install Docker Desktop
- Open a command prompt
- Run the following command to set your anthropic api key system variable
set ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=YOUR-ANTHROPIC-KEY
- Run the following command to start the docker container
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
- Launch the streamlit app by opening this URL in your browser http://localhost:8080/
