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Cloudflare Builds Out Infrastructure for AI Agents

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From sandboxed code execution to Git-compatible storage, the company is positioning itself as the default infrastructure layer for a world where every user runs dozens of autonomous agents.

Cloudflare is expanding its Agent Cloud platform with a suite of new tools designed to help developers build, deploy, and scale AI agents at production grade — addressing what the company describes as a fundamental mismatch between the ambitions of agentic AI and the infrastructure currently available to support it.

The San Francisco-based company argues that existing approaches — relying on expensive, always-on virtual servers or isolated sandboxes — cannot scale to a world where every user and employee runs dozens of personal agents simultaneously. Its answer is a set of purpose-built primitives that trade heavy containerization for faster, cheaper, and more flexible alternatives.

“The way people build software is fundamentally changing. We are entering a world where agents are the ones writing and executing code,” said Matthew Prince, co-founder and CEO of Cloudflare. “Agents need a home that is secure by default, scales to millions instantly, and persists across long-running tasks.”

The centerpiece of the announcement is Dynamic Workers, an isolate-based runtime designed to run AI-generated code in a secure, sandboxed environment. Rather than spinning up a full container for each agent task, Dynamic Workers launch in milliseconds, execute the required JavaScript, and shut down — at what Cloudflare claims is 100 times the speed and a fraction of the cost of container-based alternatives, scaling to millions of concurrent executions without warm-up delays.

For storage, Cloudflare is introducing Artifacts, a Git-compatible primitive built for high-volume, agent-driven workloads. The tool allows developers to create tens of millions of repositories, fork from any remote source, and give agents a persistent home for code and data accessible to any standard Git client — addressing what the company says are growing scale and uptime limitations in traditional version control platforms.

Cloudflare is also announcing the general availability of Sandboxes, persistent Linux environments with a shell, filesystem, and background processes, for agents that require a full operating system. The environments allow an agent to clone a repository, install packages, run builds, and iterate in a tight feedback loop comparable to that of a human developer.

Rounding out the release is Think, a framework within the company’s Agents SDK designed for long-running, multi-step tasks. Current agents are often constrained by short lifespans that are poorly suited to complex, cross-platform work; Think is intended to address that limitation by giving developers tools for building agents with genuine persistence.

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On the model side, following its acquisition of Replicate, Cloudflare is expanding its model catalog to include proprietary models from OpenAI alongside open-source alternatives, all accessible through a single interface. The company says switching between model providers requires changing only a single line of code.

OpenAI’s Rohan Varma, who leads product for Codex, said the partnership makes it significantly easier for developers to deploy production-ready agents powered by GPT-5.4 and Codex for enterprise workloads at scale.

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