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At https://codesandbox.io we worked on bringing the developer experience to the cloud. Allowing developers to be onboarded to a project with no setup, instantly spawn isolated branch environments in parallel and invite any colleague into your current work without friction... that was it, that was going to be the next thing.
The CDE, Cloud Development Environment, never became a thing. In retrospect the reason is quite simple. By moving your environment into the cloud, we also had to move writing code into the cloud. Writing code is a personal and low latency experience for developers, but for a coding agent those factors does not matter. What does matter though is everything else a cloud environment provides to improve your own developer experience:
- Every agent session is also a new up to date branch
- Run multiple agents in parallel without worktrees
- You can access the session on all your devices out of the box
- Your computer is no longer a tool for the agent
The CDE experience we built at CodeSandbox was mostly addressing one thing, accessibility. How do you get your project running in the cloud, manage git credentials, project secrets, previews and other tooling. For enterprise projects this friction typically needs to be addressed regardless, but for most projects we do not even think about it... but you have to when working in the cloud.
And this is what Claude in the Cloud is about. Helping you setting up and configuring Claude to work with your projects in the cloud.