Find vegetarian restaurants and save notes via computer use
Documented elsewhere: following Anthropic's setup instructions, The builder installed Docker, stood up a Claude API key, ran one Terminal command and opened the web app. They gave Claude the restaurant task with Google already open. Setup worked first time and the text file was stood up.
- Agent or tool
- Claude computer use
- Topic
- Knowledge & Notes
- Reported on
- Blog
- Added
- 2026-10-15
Why it matters
Notes are only useful if you can find and connect them later. Agents that organise, summarise and link information make a personal knowledge base far easier to keep up. It is one of 44 sightings filed under Knowledge & Notes on Agent Sightings (number 34 by interest), and one of 8 involving Claude computer use.
How you could try it
Here is a reusable prompt, written by us in our own words, that captures the task. Paste it into Claude computer use or any similar agent and adjust the details to your situation.
Notes task: find vegetarian restaurants and save notes via computer use. Propose edits as a checklist, apply after approval, and finish with a short handover.
Tip: Start small: run it once on a low-stakes example, read what the agent did, and only then let it run on real work.
Source
Read the original first-hand account on Blog: https://lovkush.substack.com/p/i-tried-anthropics-computer-use-agent. Our summary is a paraphrase; details are in the source.