Claude Code's computer-use server is missing from /mcp: options on Linux, Windows and Team plans

Claude Code can now drive a GUI: open an app, click through it, screenshot the result. A lot of people try to turn it on and find the computer-use server simply is not in /mcp.

That is usually not a bug. The built-in feature has a narrow eligibility list. Here is what it is, and what you can do when you are outside it.

From Anthropic's own docs page (code.claude.com/docs/en/computer-use), as of October 2026, the CLI version needs all of these:

If one of those is false, the server does not show up. Run /status to check your plan and login.

On Windows: try computer use in the Claude Desktop app. The docs say it shares the CLI's engine and is switched on in Settings; check its own requirements page for your plan.

On Linux, on a Team or Enterprise seat, via a cloud provider, or in another client (Codex CLI, Cursor's in-editor Agent, Gemini CLI): Claude Code's built-in option is not there. What does work is a computer-use MCP server. MCP is client-side, so it does not care about your plan or which provider serves the model. Claude Code just sees more tools.

There are several open-source ones: per-platform Linux tools (X11, and Wayland-first ones built on AT-SPI), Windows UI Automation tools and ADB tools for Android, plus cross-platform computer-use MCP servers that cover macOS, Linux and Windows in one install. There are also open-source wrappers that let a CLI agent borrow another vendor's desktop computer-use runtime on macOS and Linux X11. Pick by what you need to drive.

Disclosure: we make Auten, so weigh this accordingly.

Auten is an MCP server that gives your agent hands on a real screen: macOS, Windows 10/11 and Linux (X11), plus an Android phone over USB (beta). It reads the accessibility tree, clicks, types and reads text, so it works in apps that have no API.

curl -fsSL https://auten.ai/install | bash claude mcp add -s user auten -- auten mcp-bridge Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode On Linux the installer asks for sudo once to apt-install the accessibility and input tools; on macOS it needs no admin rights.

On Windows (PowerShell, no admin rights):

irm https://auten.ai/install.ps1 | iex claude mcp add -s user auten -- cmd /c npx -y @ autenai/mcp Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Then check with /mcp and ask in plain words: "Open the settings app and turn on dark mode."

Two things that differ from the built-in tool:

Honest limits: Linux means X11 today, not Wayland. The phone part is beta. It is not open source (the launcher and docs are). There is a free tier of 30 minutes a month, no card.

Repo and setup for other clients: https://github.com/auten-ai/auten-mcp (docs: https://auten.ai/mcp?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=social )