Cloudflare expands Agent Cloud

Cloudflare said on April 13 it is expanding Agent Cloud with new tools to build and run artificial intelligence agents across its network edge. (cloudflare.com) An agent is software that does multi-step work on its own, not just a single chat reply. Cloudflare said the new release is meant to move those agents from laptop demos to production systems running on its global network. (blog.cloudflare.com) Cloudflare framed the problem as a scale mismatch: traditional apps serve many users from a finite set of instances, while agents often need one execution environment per user or task. The company said that makes always-on virtual machines and container-heavy setups too expensive for broad use. (blog.cloudflare.com; cloudflare.com) The company’s pitch is that the network edge can act like a distributed runtime, placing code closer to users and data. Cloudflare said that setup can cut latency and keep tighter control over what an agent is allowed to access on the way in and out. (siliconangle.com) The new stack includes Dynamic Workers, which run artificial-intelligence-generated code inside lightweight isolates instead of full containers. Cloudflare said the approach is about 100 times faster than traditional containers and starts in milliseconds. (blog.cloudflare.com) Cloudflare also pushed Sandboxes to general availability on April 13. The product gives agents a persistent Linux-like environment with a shell, filesystem, background processes, snapshots and secure credential injection, so an agent can stop and resume work without starting over. (blog.cloudflare.com) For orchestration, Cloudflare added Think, a framework inside its Agents software development kit for persistence across long-running, multi-step tasks. The company said it is designed for agents that need memory and state, rather than a single prompt-response exchange. (markets.ft.com; techzine.eu) Cloudflare is also tying the launch to model choice. After announcing its Replicate acquisition in late 2025, the company said developers will get a larger model catalog and the ability to switch among OpenAI and open-source models through one interface. (blog.cloudflare.com; techzine.eu) OpenAI is part of the rollout. Cloudflare’s press release said Agent Cloud supports agents powered by GPT-5.4 and Codex, and OpenAI separately said the partnership is aimed at enterprise workloads that need speed and security controls. (cloudflare.com; openai.com) Cloudflare has been building pieces of this stack for months, including agent software development tools, long-running Workflows, Durable Objects for state, and bot-verification features for agent traffic. The April 13 launch pulls those pieces into a clearer bid to make Workers the place where autonomous software runs, not just where web requests are served. (blog.cloudflare.com; blog.cloudflare.com; blog.cloudflare.com)