Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work(blog.cloudflare.com)
574 points by speckx 22 hours ago | 279 comments
tl;dr: Cloudflare has open-sourced Cloudflare OS, a platform giving employees browser-based AI agent workspaces grounded in company-specific context, skills, and internal systems. It introduces "Gatekeepers" for fine-grained resource access control (replacing broad API keys) and tracks every resource an agent observes to prevent data leaks through shared apps or outputs. Each app runs as a full-stack Cloudflare Worker with its own Durable Object storage, and all model calls route through AI Gateway for cost/budget control.
HN Discussion:
  • Cloudflare OS is a compelling evolution of Sandstorm and a smart competitor to Codex/Claude apps
  • ~Cool product but concerns about vendor lock-in and lack of billing caps prevent adoption
  • Calling this an 'OS' is misleading marketing since it isn't an operating system
  • Unclear how shared data, schema conflicts, and updates work when users customize their own apps
  • ~The real IT risk is user-customized outputs becoming unreadable by others, like SharePoint sprawl