Anthropic opened a new chapter in AI development last year when it gave Claude the ability to see a screen, move a mouse and type on a keyboard. The feature, called computer use, turned the model into something closer to a digital coworker than a simple chatbot. Yet the early versions stumbled. They clicked wrong buttons. They failed at scrolling. They sometimes ignored safety rails. Developers quickly saw both the promise and the peril. So one engineer built a small library to rein them in. RasmusGodske’s claude-hook-utils on GitHub offers a clean way to insert custom checks before Claude acts. The package removes boilerplate so teams can focus on policy instead of JSON parsing. From Beta Experiments to Production Safeguards Anthropic introduced computer use in October 2024 alongside an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet. The company described it as teaching the model general computer skills rather than narrow tools.…