FAQ

VNC streams one desktop to one person. Agora runs one desktop for many agents: each has its own cursor, keyboard, tabs, permissions and results, and humans watch through an H.264 stream that costs nothing when nobody is watching. See the benchmarks.

Memory. Five agents in one Agora workspace use about 326 MB; five separate Xvfb + noVNC + Chrome stacks use about 1.45 GB. Agents that need real isolation can still get separate workspaces.

No. Agora talks to Chromium over the CDP pipe directly and has its own semantic layer, designed to be compact for LLMs.

Anything that speaks MCP over stdio, plus anything that can call an HTTP API. Agora can launch Claude Code and Codex as subagents itself, or any command you give it.

Yes. desktop_launch starts any X11 program in the workspace, and the desktop_* tools drive it with pixels and a real mouse and keyboard.

No. Agora needs Linux with Xvfb. Use a Linux server or VM and connect to it over an authenticated tunnel.

No. Xvfb has no GPU, so Chromium rasterizes in software. That is fine for most sites; heavy WebGL will be slow.

They survive. The browser profile lives on disk by name, so cookies and storage stay. Open pages are reloaded from their URLs on resume; memory is not checkpointed.

Agora detects common CAPTCHAs and lets the agent click the widget visually. When that is not enough, the agent calls human_request, you take control from the viewer or the Paseo panel, and the agent continues in the same session. See human takeover.

Not directly. Agora refuses non-loopback addresses by default. Use Cloudflare Tunnel with Access or an SSH tunnel. See the security model.

Logical cursors cost about 1.3 KB each, so hundreds are fine. Agents that use desktop input share about 6 input seats per display, recycled after 2 minutes idle; browser-only agents do not need a seat.

Agora is built by Olimpia and runs on your own machine. The Olimpia cloud (docs) hosts apps, Postgres, Redis and buckets; Acropolis, still experimental, builds OCI images.