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Cloudflare OS – an open-source AI productivity environment

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Cloudflare OS: An AI productivity environment

Cloudflare OS is an "operating system" for AI productivity originally developed for use inside Cloudflare. A large portion of Cloudflare's workforce -- from engineering to sales and everything in between -- uses Cloudflare OS every day to help them do their jobs.

This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses:

An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night.

An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workloads.

Cloudflare OS provides three things in particular:

An agent chat UI where you can ask agents to do tasks, preloaded with knowledge about how your company operates. Sandboxed application development, so that you can ask agents to build "gadgets" (small personal apps) and safely share what you've built with others. A security framework, called Gatekeepers, that applies guardrails to both agents and apps such that non-technical users can safely "go nuts" and nothing bad will happen.

We are making Cloudflare OS open source so that others can copy it and customize it for their own company. The idea is not that your company uses Cloudflare OS, but rather that you make it "Your Company OS".

Quick Start

To quickly run Cloudflare OS locally, install pnpm, then do:

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