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How to let a bot work on your Mac with approval on each step with Open Maus Bot

Point a bot at your own computer and approve or deny each risky action as an inline card.

Credentials. A bot with host control on this Mac can reach anything you allow it to, so keep the task narrow and keep stored keys out of its reach.

Who it is forA solo operator on macOS or Ubuntu Xorg who wants a bot to handle a local task while they watch and decide on each sensitive step.

The problemA bot that acts on a real computer can run commands or edit files without a clear checkpoint, which is risky without oversight.

The outcomeA local task completed by a bot where every shell command, file edit and question appeared as a card you chose to allow or deny.

What you need first

  • A computer running macOS, Windows, or Ubuntu 24.04 x64, with the OpenMausBot app downloaded from openmausbot.com or the latest release page
  • At least one of the claude, codex or grok CLIs installed and logged in on your own machine
  • A team playbook .md file, either from BotMRR or the open-source playbook repository
  • Accounts for any apps you want bots to use, such as Gmail or Slack, approved through OAuth

Steps

  1. Install the Open Maus Bot app on macOS, or on Ubuntu with Xorg rather than Wayland.
  2. Open the Computer panel and choose the option to point the bot at this Mac, after you explicitly opt in to host control.
  3. Give the bot one narrow task and watch the live screen preview while it works.
  4. Read each Allow or Deny card in chat before you respond to it.
  5. Turn host control off again when the task is done.

Prompt for your agent

Using the OpenMausBot repo at github.com/milind-soni/OpenMausBot, set up one bot to run the task <task-description> on this Mac after explicit host control opt-in. Expected output: a log of each approval card and the decision made on it. Verify that no action ran without a recorded Allow.

Caveat. Ubuntu Wayland host control is disabled while issue #345 is resolved, so use Ubuntu Xorg or macOS for this flow.

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