Shared computer

A shared computer is one durable Linux workplace for the whole organization. Bots and people use it. Files persist. A display can be watched. There's no stop_computer: turning the machine off would strand everyone else's work.

That's the opposite of a per-agent laptop (each bot gets an isolated VM that looks like a personal computer) and the opposite of computer-use as a tool call with no disk behind it.

Chatticus summons the computer when a turn first needs it. A bot can answer while the machine is still booting. Readiness is per-capability. Holding the whole agent loop behind "computer ready" is the wrong picture.

Why share it

Households and small teams already share a shop computer. Specialists walk up to it. The alternative — a VM per bot — recreates the swarm: many machines, weak common sense of "what we already did."

Sharing also forces the product to be an agent workplace, not a coding session. A session can discard the disk. A workplace can't.

Neighboring ideas: named teammates sit at the computer; farms and desks describe how the roster uses it; always-on is what happens when the computer is not the point and the agent simply waits.