The big gap in AI agents isn’t intelligence — it’s hands. An LLM can write a perfect playbook, but if it can’t hold a persistent interactive session, follow a live log, drive the SSH client through a password prompt, or watch the browser as it runs, it’s still stuck translating thought into brittle one-shot tool calls.
I went looking at what’s actually shipping right now to give agents a real computer. Six repos, three distinct layers: full sandboxes, interactive PTY servers, and browser control. Here’s how they stack up.
