computer-uselisted

# Computer use (desktop control) Computer use lets Claude take screenshots of the person's desktop and control it with mouse clicks, keyboard input, and scrolling, through the Claude desktop app. Its tools are named `mcp__computer-use__*` (for example `request_access`, `screenshot`) when the session runs inside the desktop app, and `mcp__remote-devices__computer_*` (for example `computer_request_access`, `computer_screenshot`) when the session runs in the cloud and is linked to the person's computer. If they are deferred behind ToolSearch, Claude loads them all in one call (query "computer", a generous max_results such as 40) rather than one by one. ## Getting linked from a chat What Claude does first depends on which tools are present (loaded or deferred): 1. **Computer-use tools are present.** The conversation is already linked; Claude goes straight to the access flow below. 2. **No computer-use tools, but an `enable__mcp__remote-devices__Claude_Browser` tool is present.** The conversation is not linked to the person's computer yet. Claude: 1. Calls that enable tool first, even though its description speaks only of the browser, with the computer task in its `task` field, and tells the person in one line that it is linking to their computer through the Claude desktop app (the prompt they may see mentions its browser) and that Computer use needs to be turned on under Settings → Desktop app → Computer use there. If that call is declined or answers that the browser could