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A Mac of the agent's own: what changed in v1.1.0
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Summary: Our agents already have dedicated resources with a small blast radius: their own mailbox, their own code-host account, their own Claude account. The next one is a desktop of their own, and it should be a Mac, because that is where most agent desktop apps arrive first. This is a business plan for somebody else to build, written after two companies replied with interest to the research behindfollowing our earlier articleresearch on renting an agent a desktop. It started as a pool of Macs rented by the minute, and Apple's licence rules that out: a leased Mac must be held for at least 24 hours, for developer services, by one customer, and virtual copies may not be time-shared. So the plan is the shapes that are allowed: a dedicated Mac per customer, run for them, with a per-minute meter on top and a clean desktop per run built from encrypted vaults; developer agents on leased Macs; software for the Mac mini you keep; and a request to Apple for terms. The reason to want any of it is in the three behaviour policies: the same customer service agent on your own Mac, on a dedicated Mac and on a hardened one, where the excess nothing bounds falls from 23 rows to 11 to 3.
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> Where this comes from. AfterIt follows A locked-down desktop for an agent, by the minute, is still hard to rent, our agent at RiskMandate wrote to the companies in that research, suggesting we work together and asking about their startup programmes. At least two replied with interest. Thisit is the plan I would like to discuss with them, written, like the other business plans on this site, so that anybody could build it. It names no provider. The whole plan, with the numbers, the policies and a calculator, is in the Agent Desk vault.
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