Secure transactions limit untrusted influence on computer-use agents

The system precommits how interface content may affect each action, while grounding commands against a masked view.

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Sarthak Choudhary · Mihai Christodorescu · Ashish Hooda · Somesh Jha · Tongxin Li · Damien Octeau

University of Wisconsin–Madison · Google · Google DeepMind

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Choudhary et al.

The authors separate computer-use into action generation, which chooses a semantic action, and visual grounding, which converts that choice into clicks, keystrokes or other GUI commands.

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Secure-CUA protects computer use agents from untrusted interface content by committing to action transactions before accessing it.

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