> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: /docs/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Your computer or Brigade Cloud > Where your teammates run, what each option gives you, and how to move a thread between them. A teammate works on a computer: it runs the real Claude Code or Codex there, with a browser, your repositories and the previews of the apps it builds. The computer is linked to your workspace by a small program, the **runner**. You can use your own computer for free, Brigade's cloud computer, or both. | | Your own computer | Brigade Cloud | | - | - | - | | **Price** | Free | \$99 a month per workspace (€99 in the euro zone) | | **When teammates work** | While your computer is on and awake | All the time, even when your laptop is closed | | **Routines and triggers** | Only while your computer is on | On time, even at 3 a.m. | | **AI usage** | Your Claude or ChatGPT plan | Your Claude or ChatGPT plan | | **Systems** | macOS, Linux | Nothing to install | | **Computer use** | Any app on your Mac | Its own browser; you can take control of its desktop | | **Take control, Teach a task** | Not yet | Yes | | **Website logins from Secrets** | Not yet | Yes | | **Turns at once** | Up to 8 by default | Up to 8, shared by the workspace | Teammates, threads and members are unlimited in both. ## Your own computer ### On a Mac: Brigade.app 1. In onboarding, or in **Settings → Computers**, choose **Download Brigade for Mac** (macOS 14 or later). 2. Open it, then choose **Open in Brigade** on the page. Brigade.app asks before it installs anything, links the Mac to your workspace and keeps the runner going. It lives in the menu bar and updates itself. 3. Follow **Set up Brigade…** in its menu: move it to Applications, open it at login, and, for computer use, allow Screen Recording and Accessibility. **Computer use.** On your Mac, teammates can read the screen, click and type in any app. macOS gives those permissions to a separate helper, **Brigade Computer Use**, not to the teammate. While a teammate acts, a pill on the screen shows its name and a **Stop** button. Some command-line tools a teammate runs, such as a screen recorder or `osascript` with System Events, need those permissions too. The teammate runs them through Brigade Computer Use, under the same pill: you never need to give Accessibility to Brigade itself. > [!TIP] > > Teammates work only while your Mac is awake. **Keep screen awake** in Brigade's menu stops it from > sleeping. ### On Linux, or a Mac from the terminal In **Settings → Computers**, choose **Link your machine** and run the command it shows. It looks like this: ```bash theme={null} curl -fsSL https://api.brigade.lol/runner/install.sh | sh \ && ~/.brigade/bin/brigade-runner link --api https://api.brigade.lol \ && ~/.brigade/bin/brigade-runner start ``` * It needs `curl` and `tar`, and no root access. It installs Node.js 24 if the machine has no recent one, and puts everything in `~/.brigade`. * It works on Linux (x86\_64, arm64) and macOS (Apple silicon, Intel). Windows isn't supported. * The code works once, for 10 minutes. Linking the same machine again replaces it rather than adding a second one. * Only one runner runs per machine. ### Your AI login stays on your computer Sign in with **Sign in with Claude** or **Sign in with ChatGPT (Codex)** on the computer's card, or keep the `claude` or `codex` login you already have in your terminal: it shows up by itself. The runner removes API keys such as `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` and `OPENAI_API_KEY` from what the teammate sees, so the work always runs on your plan, never on a key that bills per use. A computer you link is yours alone: other members of the workspace can't start threads on it. ## Brigade Cloud Subscribe in **Settings → Billing → Subscribe** (owners and admins), or with **Get Brigade Cloud** in onboarding. Payment goes through Stripe. The cloud computer appears in **Settings → Computers** within a few minutes; sign it in to your Claude or ChatGPT account there. * **Always on, when needed.** It sleeps after 30 idle minutes and wakes on the next message, routine or trigger. * **Shared by the workspace.** Every member's threads can run on it, on the AI accounts signed in there. * **Teammates kept apart.** Each teammate runs as its own Linux user with a private home folder, and each thread has its own network, temporary files and processes. Each teammate has its own Docker, without root. * **Backed up.** Every 10 minutes and before each sleep: thread folders (encrypted), each teammate's scheduled jobs and services, and browser sign-ins. **Replace cloud computer** in its menu builds a new one and restores all of it. Docker images, previews and tool caches are not backed up. * **Take control.** Open the computer's desktop in a thread and choose **Take control** to use it yourself, for example to solve a CAPTCHA. The teammate waits; choose **Hand back**, with an optional note, when you are done. * **Teach a task.** In the composer's **+** menu, record yourself doing a task on the cloud computer (up to 10 minutes, in Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a desktop). The teammate writes the steps down as a skill, and does the task on its own once an admin adds it. ### Cancel Choose **Manage billing** in **Settings → Billing** to update your card, read invoices or cancel. Cloud stops at the end of the month you paid for. Your workspace stays; the cloud computer stops but keeps its disk until you subscribe again, and your teammates can keep working for free on your own computer. ## Move a thread between computers Pick the computer when you start a thread (**Run on**). To move one later, choose **Continue on…** in the composer's **+** menu. When a thread's computer is offline, the thread offers **Continue on the cloud computer**. > [!NOTE] > > A thread picks up on another computer from what is on GitHub and in the thread. Files that exist > only on the first computer stay there, so commit and push what matters. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.