Introducing @computer. Claude Code & Codex in the cloud, as fast as your local machine. Sometimes even faster! Try it today via Slack, byo sub supported.

We also ran a benchmark with a few other cloud coding agents, @computer vs Devin, Capy, Hoplite and Replicas. Here’s what we found (full details in the blog)

congrats on the launch!! looks solid

thank you Michael!!

incredible, excited to use this

thanks!!

Insane stuff 🫡

🤯

dope

thanks!!

This looks cool

thank you!!

Looks great!

thanks!!

“Can someone look at this?” gets more interesting with Claude Code and Codex in Slack. Letting people bring their existing subscriptions is a thoughtful touch.

Let’s gooo

thanks!!

Congrats on the launch guys! Looks fast af

thanks!! give it a try! the "magic" is rather hard to describe - you only truly feel that its different from all other Slack agents when you start chatting with it

yes let's go!! installing now

pls let us know if anything can be improved!!

holy wut 😮

this is great lads, got it running and it's great! cookinnggggg!!!

let us know what can be improved!!

i love that you have your own hosting. I don't love how tool calls show up it's a bit bouncy. But I think that's a slack limitation

I think you could make it clearer earlier what this can and can't see/do including connecting claude code. i am just connecting on personal throwaway slack for now

but maybe this is me not paying attention and you do say lolll

setting tokens is nice. is that native to slack? or something you added

thanks!! super helpful yeah Slack has these forms as UI option for bots and we use them to send secrets to secret store, bypassing the LLM so it is securely stored

that's really smart man..

huge

wait why is it faster?

bunch of infra magic compounding we obsessed over every single latency across every single stage of every single hot path, and evolved the architecture for it also measured early, and introduced a boyscout rule for every change (easy to enforce with agents) - a change can only improve performance, or worst case not degrade it, but never ever make it worse the result is this try it, it feels qualitatively different compared to anything else that we know of out there

ok but more specifically

best slack coding agent there is

thanks!!

sick

Testing it now! Looks good

anything we can improve?

Congrats - great launch

thanks!!

So excited to try this!

tell us what we can improve!

How do you handle secrets? Does each session get its own?

you can add secrets right in the thread securely using !secret command (or the model can ask you to) it opens secure popup and secrets go into secret storage that's outside the sandbox so the model never sees them secrets can be scoped per-session, per-user or per-org

@buildwithdesi How can the model never see the secret are they mocked/proxied

for stuff like model API keys yes its a synthetic key proxy when you explicitly intend to give a secret to a session - then obviously it'd be exposed as env var but then for stuff like automations, background tasks whatnot, separate secret store and harness never sees it - also via synthetic proxying, whitelisted by origin

sending this to the team. very cool

thanks! let us know what we can improve!

is this available end to end privately? 🙌 so we data isn't leaked. or trained on?

I don't get why I someone would need this, can you explain?

to get more stuff done faster, with less context switching but to be fair that's not a need shared universally so many people in fact do not need this. only those who care about getting more stuff done faster

The main issue I see is that working on a cloud service makes you lose context of your local files. It’s only really worth it if your entire setup is already hosted on GitHub or another cloud provider

how is data privacy & security handled ?

multiple levels of isolation all the way down to actual hardware perimeter per org so your Computer is truly yours - all the underlying services and data are not shared with other tenants you can think of it as a little "private cloud" of sorts managed by agents you control

Lets goooo installing it now

let us know if anything can be improved!

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Heat

Awesome!

@Johnson_afuye_

slack as the front door is smart, that's where the "can you just fix this" asks already live. curious how it handles an agent needing a secret mid run

True wisdom is understanding that every direction is just a different kind of temperature.

does claude have access to your local machine over the wire?

no, the harness runs in an isolated cloud environment

good to know.

running dev tools in cloud at local speeds is the dream