Building Computer-Use Agents — Architecture and the Evolution of Automation
Assembling a computer-use agent means wiring together perception, grounding, action, and the loop into a system that can reliably (enough) operate software — and doing it with the safety and reliability discipline the previous posts demand. This post covers the architecture of a computer-use agent and places it in the larger story of GUI automation: how it evolves from, and improves on, decades of brittle scripting. It's the practitioner's assembly view.
Assembling perception, grounding, action, and the loop into a system — with reliability and safety wrapping as first-class. The architecture of a computer-use agent, and the evolution from brittle scripted RPA to intelligent, adaptive, natural-language-directed automation (with the determinism trade-off).