# Open Computer Use Desktop Extension MCP Server

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## Status

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## Connect

## Reviewed GitHub reports

**100 GitHub reports passed Pod's relevance review.** This can include external user reports, maintainer-confirmed bugs, and concrete feature gaps. It is evidence to inspect, not a count of distinct defects. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### A bit of confusion

After migrating the SQLite database from OpenWebUI to Open-Compose-Use, files appear to be displayed inline with a live preview (similar to artifacts). However, this live preview never actually shows up 🤔, even though all other AI functionalities are working properly.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/43) · 2026-04-11 · closed · external user · 12 comments

### contracts-lint: the asyncapi gate cannot install its tool, and its validation depends on a remote host

## What

The `asyncapi` job in `contracts-lint.yml` has two independent defects. It is not a required context, so it has been failing without blocking anything — which is how both went unnoticed.

## Defect 1 — the gate cannot install its own tool

```
npm error code ETARGET
npm error notarget No matching version found for @asyncapi/generator-hooks@0.1.1.
```

The job runs `npx --yes @asyncapi/cli@6.0.0 validate`. That CLI hard-pins `generator-v2: npm:@asyncapi/generator@3.0.1`, and every `@asyn

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/384) · 2026-08-07 · closed · 5 comments

### Sidebar with terminal not shown

Hello,
How do I get the terminal and live view to open? My setup seems to work in general, but i never see the preview area.

<img width="1122" height="393" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/b3a2c99a-8a4a-41a2-b6ae-0c10e0dfe31f" />

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/39) · 2026-04-07 · closed · external user · 5 comments

### Embed-token replay-binding on the broker north face (jti/nonce single-use, token-channel binding)

The Storage broker north face authenticates the data-plane client with a peer-minted signed embed token (NFR-SEC-82, exp <=120s). The short TTL caps the replay window but NFR-SEC-82 specifies no single-use binding: a token captured inside its TTL still verifies if replayed from another origin/browser.

**Gap.** No jti/nonce single-use enforcement, no token-channel (DPoP-style) binding. Threat-model row P4-S3 (docs/architecture/06-threat-model.md section 3.2) anchors NFR-SEC-82 + SEC-83 and recor

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/217) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 4 comments

### Layer 8: OpenAPI + Protobuf schema files (operator REST, SOAR revoke, session set-up)

Tracking the not-yet-built executable schemas named in docs/architecture/08-contracts.md §5: `contracts/openapi/` (operator REST + SOAR revoke) and `contracts/proto/` (session set-up + lease pull). Each lands as its own PR against the §1 surface inventory once its field-level shape is sourced.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/205) · 2026-05-31 · closed · 4 comments

### Most recent

### tests/test_filter.py: 7 tests assert a preview button the filter deliberately stopped emitting

tests/test_filter.py has 45 assertions and nothing collected it. Run for the
first time, 8 fail: one is a real drift, seven are stale.

The real one is fixed separately: DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL and DOWNLOAD_SCOPE are
defined on Filter.Valves and were absent from the module's VALVES: docstring
block. test_every_valve_is_documented_in_docstring iterates the actual
model_fields and caught it the first time it ever ran.

The other seven are the tests/patches shape again -- the test predates a
deliberate c

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/620) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

### tests/patches has rotted while unrun: 16 failures from a fixture predating the current patch anchors

tests/patches has never been executed by CI, and when run it fails: 16
failures and 2 errors across the six files.

The cause is a stale test fixture rather than a defect in the patches.

test_fix_large_tool_results.py builds a synthetic middleware.py and runs the
real patch scripts against it. Several tests need fix_tool_loop_errors to
apply first (a cascade dependency, line 411-412), and that patch refuses:

    ERROR: fix_tool_loop_errors anchor 1/5 (tool_loop) not found in ...
    — upstream

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/618) · 2026-08-21 · open · 1 comment

### settings-wrapper serves both internal routes unauthenticated when API_KEY is unset, and silently

settings-wrapper serves both internal routes without authentication when
API_KEY is unset, and it has no tests at all.

settings-wrapper/app.py:36-38:

    def _check_auth(api_key: str = Header(None, alias="X-Internal-Api-Key")):
        if API_KEY and api_key != API_KEY:
            raise HTTPException(401, "Invalid API key")

API_KEY comes from os.getenv("API_KEY", "") at line 30, so an unset variable
makes the guard a no-op. Exercised rather than read:

    API_KEY=<empty>  supplied=None     

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/612) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

### chat_id is substituted into the system prompt unvalidated, so a newline injects instructions

chat_id is substituted into the system prompt three times without validation,
so a newline in it injects instructions the model reads as its own.

system_prompt.py:703-706:

    base = f"{PUBLIC_BASE_URL}/files/{chat_id}"
    result = result.replace("{file_base_url}", base)
    result = result.replace("{archive_url}", f"{base}/archive")
    result = result.replace("{chat_id}", chat_id)

system_prompt.py never imports sanitize_chat_id -- grep returns zero. The
value arrives from mcp_tools.set_con

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/609) · 2026-08-21 · open · 1 comment

### a tokens-URL header sends the deployment's internal key out, and brings a credential back in

The same independent-fallback shape as #605, in a second place, and this one
has a return path as well as an outbound one.

docker_manager.py:305-306:

    mcp_tokens_url     = current_mcp_tokens_url.get()     or MCP_TOKENS_URL
    mcp_tokens_api_key = current_mcp_tokens_api_key.get() or MCP_TOKENS_API_KEY

Both ContextVars are set straight from request headers
(mcp_tools.py:1358-1367, x-mcp-tokens-url and x-mcp-tokens-api-key) with no
validation, and they are resolved independently:

    neithe

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/607) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

### a base-URL header redirects upstream calls while the deployment credential is still sent

A request header chooses the upstream host, while the credential sent to it
can still come from the deployment. Setting one without the other is what
makes this interesting.

docker_manager.py:544-547:

    anthropic_key  = current_anthropic_auth_token.get() or ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN
    anthropic_base = current_anthropic_base_url.get()   or ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL
    if anthropic_key:
        extra_env["ANTHROPIC_AUTH_TOKEN"] = anthropic_key
        extra_env["ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL"]   = anthropic_base

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/605) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

### x-user-email is interpolated into an upstream header value with no validation

x-user-email is taken from the request header with no validation and
interpolated into a header VALUE that the guest passes to the upstream API.

docker_manager.py:599:

    extra_env["ANTHROPIC_CUSTOM_HEADERS"] = f"x-openwebui-user-email: {user_email}"

user_email comes from mcp_tools.set_context_from_headers:1322, which does
`current_user_email.set(headers["x-user-email"])` -- no allow-list, no length
cap, no character check. security.py validates chat_id and paths; it has no
email rule at all

[Read the thread](https://github.com/Wide-Moat/open-computer-use/issues/603) · 2026-08-21 · open · 0 comments

[See all 24 reports Pod holds for Open Computer Use Desktop Extension](/mcp/open-computer-use-desktop-extension/issues) — of 100 qualified upstream.

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