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Posted by speckx 7 hours ago

Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work(blog.cloudflare.com)
390 points | 210 commentspage 2
jesse_dot_id 1 hour ago|
AOS would make more sense for the naming convention here.
alansaber 7 hours ago||
So, a security-oriented cloud agent framework? Better call it an OS.
arm32 6 hours ago||
If Cloudflare's been using this internally, could that explain why their dashboards are so confused, disjointed and broken?
moody__ 5 hours ago||
When did junk like this start being called an operating system?
p0w3n3d 5 hours ago|
The same question is bothering me
pelagicAustral 7 hours ago||
Probably better if they make it obvious that you need Workers paid plan:

"Your Cloudflare account is on the Free plan, but the Cloudflare OS backend needs Dynamic Workers, which requires the Workers Paid plan."

elicash 6 hours ago|
This is just if you don't want to host it yourself, no?
pelagicAustral 6 hours ago||
Far as I can tell, even if you host it yourself you are still bound to their workers.
orakmoya 6 hours ago||
which are open sourced [1]. I tried deploying it and had Deepseek v4 Flash create a dumb whiteboarding app.

[1] https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd

wxw 7 hours ago||
This is effectively a Codex/Claude app competitor. Good move from Cloudflare since it helps them sell their core infra offerings. I like the direction they’re going with access control.
bearjaws 7 hours ago||
The real question is, can Cloudflare become a equal or better OpenAI / Claude provider, while offering a vastly more robust platform than either?

I think the answer is yes, simply because both OAI and Anthropic leverage CF for their hosting today.

I used to meme back in 2008 (when Google docs first was becoming big) that "The problem has always been the sandbox". The problem Chrome and Firefox solved was the Sandbox - you can browse some random code across the web without worrying about getting hacked. The same problem has arisen today but now with AI agents.

There is likely to be huge winners in the AI space simply based on who can create the best way to contain AI agents and "expose AI value" safely.

dgellow 7 hours ago|||
So, that means even more pressure on OpenAI and Anthropic. I really don’t see how they will stay competitive long term. Cloudflare can offers way better product by integrating with the rest of their platform and offering a variety of models, including open models they host themselves
alansaber 7 hours ago||
Yep, a pre-wrapped Codex for enterprise. Seems like the logical evolution from setting up an MCP.
mrcwinn 6 hours ago||
Codex for enterprise is Codex for enterprise.
angry_octet 5 hours ago||
This is revolutionary stuff. It crystalises latent thoughts I've had about how to safely integrate agentic capability for serious work.

We're starting to see indifferently architected AI creep into every engineering tool, from requirements management to coding, MATLAB, EDA and Solidworks. At the same time we see LLMs orchestrating long running hacking campaigns that will leverage other agents and automation to propagate. We really need an architecture that can handle that complexity.

Kenton Varda hitting the ball out of the park again.

scottydelta 4 hours ago||
Well everyone is trying to create an environment where they can safely delegate tasks to agents.

I am no different, but my approach is a dedicated powerful computer on your desk rather than something in the cloud. I am calling it Tarvis AI (derived from TARS from Interstellar and Jarvis from Iron Man), more details here: https://tarvisai.com

I have tried many of the VM/cloud-based agent setups, and they either tend to be only novelties since you can’t do much with 2-4 vCPUs + limited RAM or they start racking up expensive cloud bills.

I realized that the underlying operating systems for AI have to be built from the ground up for agents instead of taking current OSes and taming them for agents. Not sure how much of that philosophy is followed by Cloudflare. Excited to see growth in this area.

programd 3 hours ago||
Also worth reading is the blog post by the Cloudflare CIO Sam Rhea on how they are actually using it internally, with some examples.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-use-ai-with-cloudflare-os...

jakswa 3 hours ago|
In case anyone else is curious, local Gemma4 12B Q6 XL really struggles to make use of this for simple goals like a daily briefing after an MCP tool call. I don't think there's a simple artifact concept? Still early but confused.
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