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I think it creates a loop back connection, basically a reverse socks5 or a VPN if they are more sophisticated. That’s how I would do it. Note that I am also working on a such bot/AI os and mine is better (for now) . If you have trillions, billions to or millions to invest feel free to reach out.

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This would imply you need to have your computer on in order for it to function, which seems like a deal breaker for many consumer usecases imo. I'd like to be able to say "order my groceries" and then I hop on the subway.

Not a big deal at all. Claude Code and Codex both support keeping your computer awake. That'll just be a default thing that gets turned on when you install one of these apps.

i just completely disagree. lots of people don't even have laptops and how will they keep my laptop alive and performing tasks while it's in my backpack on the subway not connected to internet?

i feel like there's an obvious advantage if your agent can work truly in the background

I agree, but I made myself laugh pondering a solution to this in which I came up with a Raspberry Pi like device that acts as the loopback for the agent. Always keep it on and plugged in.

I would like to introduce the Grok Box

I actually have set up something similar myself and it is much easier now that codex desktop for linux just came out (which has computer use/browser driving abilities). The issue is that on an rpi, I have to usually manually log into everything once.

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