Article URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-os/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49182996 Points: 139 # Comments: 66

Every organization has a mission, a reason for being. Organizations pass that mission — along with their terminology, procedures, systems, standards, and ways of working — to their people. People, in turn, take this context together with their own experience and work towards the mission. Work can take many forms, from code, to documents and slides, to relationships, to outcomes in the physical world. Some of these are straightforward: code either runs or it doesn’t. Agents have been using this feedback loop to produce code that “works” for developers over the last couple of years. But what about the rest of us? Bringing the same leverage to the rest of the organization is a harder problem. Agents need to understand the context of the company and be able to reach the systems people use to do their jobs. They need to turn that context and access into work that moves the organization towards its mission. That’s why we created Cloudflare OS. It gives every person an agent and workspace built around their company: how it works, what it knows, and the systems it relies on. In May of this year, we gave every person at Cloudflare access to the first version of Cloudflare OS. Thousands of people across every function, many of them outside of engineering, use it every day to create documents and slides, automate repeatable tasks, and build small apps to visualize data and help them do their work. Cloudflare OS also gave everyone a shared library of context and skills built by teams at Cloudflare. It captures our terminology, procedures, and best-known ways of doing recurring work as instructions an agent can follow. When one person figures out a better way to do something, everyone else can use it. Today, we are open sourcing a new version of Cloudflare OS. Any organization can deploy it, connect it to internal systems, and make it their own.