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Everything we launched during Agents Week
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Cloudflare announced a suite of new runtime, development, and security tools aimed at enabling autonomous AI agents on its platform.
Engineers can now build agents that run on a dedicated compute substrate, communicate across languages, and perform programmable transactions without leaving the Cloudflare edge. Adopting these features requires learning new APIs, integrating wallet and tracing functions, and reworking CI pipelines as code-driven workflows. The tools are tightly coupled to Cloudflare’s infrastructure, so they provide limited benefit for workloads running elsewhere.
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Introduced @cloudflare/computer, a runtime that selects the appropriate execution environment for agent workloads.
Added Workers RPC for direct Python-JavaScript communication and inbound TCP/gRPC support for real-time voice agents.
Launched the Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) with Cloudflare Agents (tracing, replay, human-in-the-loop), Cloudflare Wallets for programmable transactions, AI-driven CI/CD, and identity-aware security controls.
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Cloudflare added a dedicated agent runtime (@cloudflare/computer) that can pick the execution environment for a workload. It also enabled Workers RPC to let Python and JavaScript Workers call each other directly. Inbound TCP and gRPC support was added to Workers and Containers, allowing real-time voice agent backends. Together these changes give agents a compute substrate and communication layer that previously required external services.
The Agent Development Lifecycle (ADLC) replaces the traditional SDLC with primitives for tracing, replay, and human-in-the-loop approvals. Cloudflare Agents provides live tracing and replay of each run, plus a wallet for programmable transactions. Adopting these tools means engineers must instrument code with the new tracing API and integrate wallet calls for any economic activity. Teams also need to rewrite CI pipelines as code-driven workflows that include an automated failure-repair agent.
Security and governance were extended to agents through the Agent Access Model, WriteGuard controls for MCP Servers, and identity-aware analytics for spotting rogue AI behavior. Cloudflare OS was open-sourced as an internal platform for building agent-friendly apps and automating work. These features stop working outside Cloudflare’s network because they rely on its edge infrastructure, identity system, and policy engine. Engineers who run workloads on other clouds or on-premises will not get the same built-in agent-specific access controls or wallet integration.
Observability improvements include local tracing for Workers debugging and the Billable Usage API for programmatic cost visibility. The WebMCP preview aims to let any website expose a machine-callable interface for agents. While these tools simplify monitoring and external integration, their effectiveness depends on agents adhering to the published MCP contracts and on website owners enabling the interface.
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