Computers

A Computer is a working environment that lasts. Files stay where an Agent left them, software stays installed, browser logins stay signed in, and a long-running process keeps running between your conversations.

Two kinds

A cloud Computer is one Runva runs for you. It has a power switch, and it only bills for the time it’s awake.

Your own machine is your laptop or desktop, connected through the Runva desktop app. There’s no power switch, because it’s your hardware. What matters instead is whether it’s reachable. If you’ve closed the lid or quit the app, an Agent can’t work there and says so rather than pretending otherwise. Nothing queues up for when you get back, so anything you were waiting on has to be asked for again.

The working folder gives the Agent a starting place and instructions. It isn't a filesystem boundary. The browser it drives is Runva's own, signed in separately from your personal browser.

Sharing

Each Computer has a responsible person. Managers can grant people, teams, and Agents Read access to use its software and files, or Write access to manage its configuration in Runva. The Computer page shows grants, assigned Agents, and active Runs. Sharing an Agent doesn't grant its readers direct Computer access.

Working together

You and an Agent can use an authorized Computer at the same time. You don't need to take control or return it afterward. Private credential entry has its own temporary protections.

Power

An Agent can turn its own cloud Computer on and off. Turning it on answers straight away and the machine warms in the background, so the Agent carries on thinking while it waits. Turning it off is a real decision that can interrupt work in progress, so Runva says what it will interrupt before it happens, and you can add restrictions through the Agent's judge instructions.

Recovery points

Before anything risky, an Agent can save a recovery point for a cloud Computer: a complete copy of the machine as it stands, with its files, running programs, and browser sessions.

Restoring one brings that Computer back to the moment it was taken and discards what came after, though Runva saves a way back first. Forking one makes a separate Computer from that state and leaves the original alone. A fork copies everything that was on the machine, including whatever it was signed into, so it’s worth being deliberate about.

Recovery points are kept until somebody deletes them, and they cost storage while they exist. Deleting the Computer deletes them with it, so a recovery point protects that machine rather than outliving it.

Your own machine doesn’t have recovery points. It’s your hardware, not something Runva can copy.