Clanker Cloud

Clanker Cloud is a desktop AI workspace built by Nov 1337 Labs that lets engineers and AI agents query, plan, and operate cloud infrastructure without routing credentials through a hosted SaaS layer. It is built on top of the open-source Clanker CLI (MIT-licensed, written in Go) and is currently in free beta through July 2026. The product targets builders shipping AI-built apps, lean DevOps and SRE teams, and AI researchers who want local-first control over multi-cloud environments.

What It Is

Clanker Cloud is a local-first AI DevOps workspace that connects to existing cloud accounts — AWS, GCP, Azure, Tencent Cloud, Kubernetes, Cloudflare, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Supabase, Railway, Fly.io, and Verda — and lets users ask plain-English questions about live infrastructure, generate reviewed execution plans, and optionally apply changes in an explicit "maker mode." Credentials and AI keys stay on the user's machine rather than passing through a vendor-hosted backend. The underlying Clanker CLI is open source under the MIT license and powers the terminal, automation, MCP, and desktop app workflows.

Architecture: Local-First with Agent-Native Design

The product is structured around a clear trust boundary: cloud credentials and AI provider keys never leave the local machine. Users bring their own model keys (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, Cohere, Mistral, Ollama, llama.cpp, and others), so AI inference costs are billed directly by the chosen provider rather than through a markup layer. The desktop app communicates with a local backend that the Clanker CLI MCP server can also reach, enabling agent frameworks like Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenClaw, and Hermes to query the same infrastructure context through a local MCP surface.

Workflow: Ask, Inspect, Plan, Apply

The core workflow follows four stages:

• Ask: Query live infrastructure in plain English across connected providers
• Inspect: Scan resources, trace dependencies, and view topology without switching between cloud consoles
• Plan: Generate a reviewed execution plan showing intended impact before any change is made
• Apply: Explicitly enable maker mode to approve and execute the plan

A "Deep Research" mode fans out parallel AI agents across AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, and other connected providers to produce a prioritized report covering cost waste, security risks, reliability gaps, and deploy failures.

Supported Integrations and Platforms

Clanker Cloud supports a broad set of cloud and tooling integrations:

• Cloud providers: AWS, GCP, Azure, Tencent Cloud, Cloudflare, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vercel, Railway, Fly.io, Verda
• Kubernetes: EKS, GKE, AKS with natural-language cluster queries, pod logs, resource metrics, and cluster creation
• Databases and auth: Supabase
• CI/CD and repos: GitHub Actions
• Observability: Sentry, Datadog
• AI models: OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, Gemini, Mistral AI, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Ollama, llama.cpp
• Agent frameworks: Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, OpenClaw, Hermes

The desktop app runs on macOS, Windows, and Linux. The CLI is installable via Homebrew or from source (requires Go).

Update: v0.0.8 and Active Development

The latest CLI release is v0.0.8, published May 28, 2026. The GitHub repository (bgdnvk/clanker) was created in August 2025 and shows active development with the last push in June 2026. The project has accumulated 366 stars and 18 forks. The product page describes an "agentic-native cloud" deployment target as coming soon, indicating the team is building toward a hosted cloud layer where agents can operate infrastructure directly alongside the existing local-first desktop model.

Who It Is For

The product page identifies three primary audiences: builders moving from AI-generated prototypes to real production infrastructure, DevOps and SRE teams investigating incidents and managing multi-cloud topology, and AI researchers who need to bring up training and inference infrastructure across preferred GPU providers. A fourth path — giving AI agents a grounded local MCP surface — is explicitly supported through the CLI's MCP server, which exposes tools for version queries, routing decisions, command execution, and Clanker Cloud app control.