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Your agent needs a computer, not a container — introducing @cloudflare/computer
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Engineers building agentic systems no longer need to manually orchestrate isolates and containers; the runtime decides where each workload runs based on its needs. This gives each agent a consistent computer‑like environment with file access, shell, and tooling, preserving the horizontal scalability of isolates and the vertical capability of containers. The result is simpler code, better resource efficiency, and a clearer path to scale agents to hundreds of millions of instances.
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The package provides a durable, shared filesystem that works across isolates and containers, keeping changes in sync.
Agents can run file‑only tasks in fast isolates and switch to containers for Linux, npm, or native binary workloads without leaving the same workspace.
Installation is via npm (npm install @cloudflare/computer) and the runtime can be attached to any Durable Object to expose the virtual filesystem and execution tools.
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