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We introduce FaraGen1.5, a scalable data pipeline for computer use agents composed of three modular components: environments, solvers, and verifiers. FaraGen1.5 uses both live websites and synthetic environments that faithfully simulate domains gated by authentication or that require irreversible actions. It employs a solver harness that can be powered by multiple models, including strong frontier models such as GPT-5.4, and also incorporates a user simulator to enable multi-turn rollouts. Finally, FaraGen1.5 scores the resulting trajectories with three complementary verifiers covering task correctness, efficiency, and critical-point adherence. Using data produced by this pipeline, we train Fara1.5, a family of native computer use agents (CUAs) at three scales built on Qwen3.5 (4B, 9B, and 27B). 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