Run Minecraft in a Windows Sandbox for Computer Use Agents
A guide on running Minecraft within a Windows sandbox to facilitate testing for computer-use AI agents. It details the configuration of virtualized hardware and MCP drivers to allow agents to interact with the game.
Why it matters
Provides a controlled environment for training and testing AI agents in complex, GUI-based software environments.
Boot a Windows sandbox, install Minecraft Java Edition, and drive it with an agent through the cua-driver MCP server running inside the sandbox.
Copy Page Minecraft exercises almost everything a Windows sandbox can do: it needs internet access, a Java runtime, working OpenGL, and a GUI that only clicks can drive. This guide boots a Windows sandbox, installs Minecraft Java Edition, and hands it to an agent that talks to cua-driver's MCP server inside the sandbox — the same loop against a local sandbox and against Fleet.
Image.windows() resolves to a pinned Windows Server 2022 containerDisk. Three things get added on top of the defaults:
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