v0.7.0 — Autonomous Windows Agent (6 phases)

v0.7.0 - Phases 1-6 Complete

Windows Computer Use for AI Agents - click, screenshot, type, drag, OCR, and verify native Windows UI via MCP. 22 portmanteau tools.

Phase 1: Autonomous Mission Engine

• automation_mission(run=...) - give it a natural-language goal, it decomposes via LLM, executes each step with retry + verification, returns pass/fail with evidence
• Outcome verification (verify=True) built into every click and set_text
• Unified RetryPolicy with strategy chain (refocus, wait_stable, fallback, escalate)

Phase 2: Adaptive Intelligence

• Adaptive element location - auto-cascades through title, auto_id, control_id, class+type, OCR region scan
• Telemetry SQLite store - every action logged; query failure patterns per tool
• automation_system(telemetry=True) - aggregate stats and top failure patterns

Phase 3: Macros and Workflows

• automation_macro - record, stop, replay, replay_with_verify, list
• automation_mission(workflow=True) - explicit multi-app steps with timeout and cross-step data chaining

Phase 4: Smart Discovery

• automation_smart - discover (scan all windows), list_apps, list_controls, click (intent-based across all windows with LLM disambiguation)

Phase 5: Self-Healing and Event-Driven

• Self-healing missions - checks window alive before each step, re-launches dead apps, aborts after 5 consecutive failures
• Cross-app data flow - store_as and dollar-ref key references between workflow steps
• automation_watch - background thread watchers for window_appears, window_closes, text_appears, element_appears

Phase 6: Closing the Loop

• Telemetry-driven strategy selection - queries best historical strategy before each mission step
• Updated agent instructions (CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, SKILL.md)
• just smoke - quick import and register verification

Installer and Tooling

• Tesseract OCR auto-install (NSIS checkbox or just install-tesseract)
• Playwright e2e suite - 5 spec files, 19 tests, all routes plus REST API
• Help page overhauled with 6 horizontal tabs mirroring the README stack
• CUA-NSIS certified - 12 of 12 phases passed

v0.6.0 — Renamed to windows-computer-use-mcp

What's New

Repo renamed from pywinauto-mcp to windows-computer-use-mcp. GitHub auto-redirects the old URL.

New tools: analyze_winapp (auto-crawl + screenshot + element map), CuaHUD (blinking red overlay with e-stop), crawler webapp page.

CUA-NSIS: 11-phase smoke test (config-driven, fleet-reusable), WebView bridge OCR proof, log analysis, nav click-through.

First release with Tauri NSIS installer and MCPB under the new name.

pywinauto-mcp v0.5.4-beta.1 (June 2026)

pywinauto-mcp v0.5.4-beta.1 (June 2026)

Windows desktop operator beta — not a pip-from-GitHub project.

Download

• pywinauto-mcp-0.5.4-beta.1-setup.exe — installer (recommended)
• pywinauto-mcp-0.5.4-beta.1.msi — MSI alternative
• pywinauto-mcp.mcpb — Claude Desktop bundle

Python users

Use PyPI, not GitHub release assets:

uvx pywinauto-mcp

Supersedes obsolete v0.1.0 (July 2025).

PyWinAutoMCP v0.1.0

Superseded by v0.5.4-beta.1 (June 2026). Legacy DXT bundle only — do not use.