OpenComputer AgentDeploy

OpenComputer is an open-source platform by Digger that gives AI agents real, persistent Linux VMs instead of ephemeral sandboxes. The AgentDeploy feature lets developers turn a prompt into a deployable, always-on agent with a permanent HTTP address — compatible with Claude Code, Codex, opencode, and Cursor. The project is licensed under Apache 2.0 and actively maintained on GitHub.

What It Is

OpenComputer sits in the AI infrastructure category, providing long-running cloud compute specifically designed for agentic workloads. Unlike traditional sandboxes that spin up, execute a task, and disappear, OpenComputer VMs hibernate when idle and resume in seconds with full state intact — filesystem, installed packages, and running processes all preserved. The oc agent deploy CLI command treats a prompt.md file as a deployable agent, assigning it a permanent URL that can be triggered via Slack, webhooks, or cron jobs.

How the Deployment Workflow Works

The AgentDeploy flow is designed to be driven entirely from within an AI coding assistant:

• Install the oc CLI via a one-line curl script
• Run oc login to authenticate
• Run oc agent init to scaffold a prompt.md describing the agent's behavior
• Run oc agent deploy to publish the agent to a permanent URL
• Smoke-test with oc agent invoke and get back a live agent URL plus a dashboard link

The entire setup sequence can be pasted into Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor as a single instruction block, making the onboarding path fully agentic.

Architecture: VMs, Not Containers

OpenComputer provisions full Linux VMs with root access rather than containers. The agent loop runs inside the VM alongside the filesystem and preview server, eliminating network round-trips between the agent and the code it writes. Key architectural properties include:

• Persistent state — VMs hibernate instead of timing out; state survives across sessions without manual snapshot/restore
• Elastic compute — memory and CPU can be resized at runtime without restarting the VM
• Checkpoints — instant snapshots allow forking or rolling back to any prior state
• Preview URLs — ports can be exposed externally with auth (Clerk) and custom domains
• Per-tenant package control — software versions can be managed and hot-swapped inside running VMs

Platform and SDK Support

The project ships both a TypeScript/Node SDK (@opencomputer/sdk on npm) and a Python SDK (opencomputer-sdk on PyPI), plus the oc CLI binary for macOS and Linux. The SDK exposes higher-level primitives for Claude Agent SDK workloads, including real-time event streaming for agent sessions. Self-hosting on AWS or Azure is documented in the repository's SELFHOSTING.md.

Update: v0.6.0.24

The latest release is v0.6.0.24, published on July 27, 2026, according to GitHub release metadata. The repository was created in December 2025 and has seen continuous pushes through mid-2026, indicating active development. The project's blog covers topics such as elastic compute paradigms, agent isolation models, and sandbox fingerprinting, signaling a focus on deepening the infrastructure story for B2B agent platform builders.