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Glasswarp drives a real Windows machine you own — your GPU, your apps, your files. The host agent is the black box that runs there: it captures the screen, encodes it, and injects native input, with a visible session indicator and a kill switch.
This is a physical, one-time, owner-consent step. A coding agent can wire up your project, but a human must install the host and enable API access.

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Requirements

  • Windows 10/11 (64-bit).
  • A GPU is recommended for NVENC hardware encode (falls back gracefully).
  • Owner access to the machine.

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Install

1

Download the host agent

Grab the installer from glasswarp.com/downloads on the Windows machine.
2

Run the installer

Launch it and follow the prompts. The host installs as a background agent.
3

Sign in and pair

Sign in with your Glasswarp account to pair this machine to your account. See Pair a rig.
4

Enable API access

In the Console → Rigs, confirm the rig is online and turn on API access. It is off by default.

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Verify

From your dev machine, list rigs and confirm yours is eligible:
You should see your machine with online=True and api_access_enabled=True.
If API access is off, sessions will be refused. This is the per-rig consent guardrail — see Safety and consent.
Next: pair the rig and start your first session.