# Coasty

> **TL;DR.** Coasty is an API and platform for computer-use AI agents: developers send a natural-language task, pick a managed Linux or Windows machine, and the agent drives the interface via screenshots, mouse, and keyboard until the goal is verified done.

- **Category:** AI / Computer-Use Agents / Automation
- **Stage:** rising
- **Age:** 144 days
- **Origin date:** 2026-02-22
- **First detected:** 2026-07-16
- **Canonical URL:** https://earlyterms.com/term/coasty
- **Sources:** 7 primary URLs

## Definition

Coasty is an API and platform for computer-use AI agents: developers send a natural-language task, pick a managed Linux or Windows machine, and the agent drives the interface via screenshots, mouse, and keyboard until the goal is verified done. It targets back-office work in legacy desktop software where RPA scripts and rival agents break.

Founders Nitish Kovuru and Prateek Jannu (YC S26, San Francisco) first surfaced the product on HN in [February 2026](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117621) claiming a state-of-the-art OSWorld score, then formally [launched on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922706) on July 15, 2026 with a claimed 82.81% on OSWorld and a pivot toward automating healthcare payer-portal workflows.

## Analogy

A remote-controlled desktop that reads the screen like a person, not a script that snaps the moment a menu moves.

## Why it's emerging now

Coasty's July 15 Launch HN post reframed a five-month-old computer-use agent as a YC S26 company chasing healthcare payer portals, claiming 82.81% on OSWorld while HN commenters disputed the "SOTA" framing.

## Related terms

- *parent:* CUA
- *competitor:* browser-use
- *related:* agent-loop
- *related:* managed-agents
- *related:* agent-harness
- *related:* remote-workspaces
- *related:* workspace-agent
- *related:* OSWorld
- *competitor:* RPA (robotic process automation)
- *competitor:* Anthropic Claude Computer Use
- *competitor:* OpenAI Operator

## Sources

1. [Launch HN: Coasty (YC S26) – An API for computer-use agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48922706)
2. [Coasty — Y Combinator company profile](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/coasty)
3. [Coasty — API docs](https://coasty.ai/docs)
4. [Coasty homepage — healthcare payer-portal positioning](https://coasty.ai/)
5. [Coasty Blog — Why Your Computer Use Agent API Integration Might Be A Dead End](https://coasty.ai/blog/computer-use-api-integration-dead-end-or-next-big-thing)
6. [Show HN: Coasty.ai – We just hit SOTA on OSWorld](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47117621)
7. [OSWorld-Verified leaderboard](https://benchlm.ai/benchmarks/osWorldVerified)

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