AI Needs Keyboard Custody

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You type into the app currently receiving your keyboard input. An AI assistant needs its clicks and typing delivered too.

The software delivering those actions is called a driver. Sharing a computer gets awkward when the helper takes over the app receiving your words.

Apparently, getting an assistant now requires a keyboard custody agreement.

Cua Driver Bench tests whether an agent can finish desktop tasks while simulated user typing continues. A full background pass requires completing the task through app controls, avoiding shell shortcuts, and leaving the user undisturbed.

The model, prompts and limits stay the same; the driver changes.

In Scale AI's macOS runs, browser-use completed 32 of 40 tasks within the app-only rule, but disturbed the user in 31 of those 32. Finishing the assignment and letting you work were very different achievements.

Cua's cua-driver achieved 23 of 40 full background passes, or 58%. Disclosure: Cua builds that driver and wrote the tasks and test setup.

Scale ran these trials; recordings and trial data are public.

This does not prove desktop agents cannot work. It shows why completion alone is an incomplete score: test whether your helper also leaves your typing alone.

Source: https://cua.ai/blog/cua-driver-bench

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