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pith:2026:DBFULCHJLEFXRGLD2WJA4UFEHV

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TClone: Low-Latency Forking of Live GUI Environments for Computer-Use Agents

Alex Asch, Hansin Tushar Patwa, Vikranth Srivatsa, Yiying Zhang, Yutong Huang

TClone forks live GUI workspaces at low latency by separating fast branch creation from durable checkpointing.

arxiv:2605.17320 v1 · 2026-05-17 · cs.OS · cs.AI

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C1strongest claim

TClone enables a live GUI workspace to be snapshotted, forked into isolated branches, rolled back, and selectively committed or merged, reducing total task latency by 1.9x and 1.5x over KVM and CRIU in end-to-end agent-loop measurements.

C2weakest assumption

The separation of fast branch creation from durable checkpointing using sibling containers, copy-on-write memory sharing, filesystem versioning, GUI-local execution, and asynchronous checkpointing delivers both low latency and adequate isolation for live interactive GUI workspaces in practice.

C3one line summary

TClone introduces low-latency forking of live GUI environments via sibling containers, copy-on-write sharing, and asynchronous checkpointing, achieving 1.9x and 1.5x lower task latency than KVM and CRIU.

References

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[1] Firecracker: Lightweight virtualization for serverless applications 2020

[2] Agent S: An open agen- tic framework that uses computers like a human 2025

[3] Claude Cowork by anthropic

[5] Computer use tool 2026

[6] Computer use tool 2026

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184b4588e9590b789963d5920e50a43d7341baf6d7199395dba976c5da8e7e7f

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arxiv: 2605.17320 · arxiv_version: 2605.17320v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.17320 · pith_short_12: DBFULCHJLEFX · pith_short_16: DBFULCHJLEFXRGLD · pith_short_8: DBFULCHJ

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