[nzach]

I think the main advantage is adaptability.

Imagine you have a pretty exotic task you need to complete that involves converting a video file from one format to another.

You can use ChatGPT or something similar and the best you will get is either a script you can run on you machine that does what you need or he may decide to render a new video.

If you have something like OpenwebUI you could configure a MCP that converts videos and allow the model to use this MCP to do your task. This should work, but is quite a lot of work for something you'll ever do once.

But if the agent has it's own environment he can decide to install ffmpg, execute the transformation and serve you the file you want.

In reality there is no new capabilities with this approach, but things get a lot more comfortable.

[quantumleaper]

This doesn't require computer use, just a bash tool (and possibly fetch to get ffmpeg documentation)