Your machine & desktop

Your desktop

This is the part most cloud coding tools don't have, and it's a big reason Wrkr exists: a real desktop you can see.

A terminal shows you text. It can't show you a layout that's off by ten pixels, a color that came out wrong, a render that broke, a browser-automation run clicking the wrong button, or your app on a phone-sized screen. On a terminal-only cloud you build your app and then you're blind to what it actually looks like — "the tests are green but the UI is broken."

Wrkr streams you a real Linux desktop, live, so you can just look.

What you can actually do

  • See your frontend for real. Open Chrome right on the machine, load localhost:3000, and look at your app — pixel for pixel, the real thing, not a guess from log output.
  • Watch your agent drive a browser. Run a browser-automation flow in a headed browser and watch it click through a real page on your desktop as it happens — the way you'd actually debug it. (More: Working with your AI.)
  • Let your agent drive the whole desktop. Not just the browser — with wrkr-computer your agent can open and focus any app, screenshot, then click, type, and paste through it: GUI tools, file dialogs, cross-app steps. Real computer use, on a machine you can watch. (More: Working with your AI.)
  • Run GUI apps. Desktop apps, Electron apps, a database GUI, a design tool — anything with a window. If it runs on Linux, it runs here and you can see it.
  • Test on a phone screen. Preview mobile layouts at real device sizes with the browser's device toolbar, and see how your app looks and behaves on mobile, instead of imagining it.
  • Install your own tools. It's your desktop, with full admin control. Add a GUI editor, a database browser, whatever you like — see Your AI tools for coding tools specifically.

It feels like a workstation

The desktop streams live to your Mac or a browser and it's tuned for work: readable code text, responsive typing, smooth scrolling and dragging. It's a productivity workstation you drive all day — not a game stream, and it doesn't pretend to be one.

The streamed desktop carries audio and microphone too, so media features work, and you can scale or zoom the view for readability and go fullscreen when you want the whole screen.

What it's not for

Wrkr is a coding workstation, not a media or graphics rig. Sustained 4K video editing, heavy 3D/CAD, GPU compute, and VR are out of scope. Everything a normal app build needs to be seen and tested is exactly what it's for.