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Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Post by xyzzy_plugh »

avipars wrote: post #27
simonw wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried this out: % npx wrangler deploy --temporary wrangler 4.103.0 ──────────────────── You must accept Cloudflare's Terms of Service (https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/) and Privacy Policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/) in order to continue. By typing "yes", you agree to these terms. Type "yes" to continue. … yes Solving proof-of-work challenge… Temporary account ready: Account: Educated Celery (c…

You might want to claim the link or remove it

Why?

Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Post by aleksiy123 »

simonw wrote: post #24

Hot damn... > Any agent can now run wrangler deploy --temporary and deploy a Worker to Cloudflare. This temporary deployment stays live for 60 minutes, during which time you can claim the temporary account, making it permanently your own. If you don't, it expires on its own. Forget about agents, Cloudflare just provided free scratch deployments - ephemeral for 60 minutes - for anyone . This is going to be amazing for…

Wasn’t this case pretty much before?

The limits are 100 workers on free and 500 on paid.

And if need more then you can always go their platform which supports tenancy.

As long as you have a cronjob or similar to clean up the cost of having per PR preview is pretty much zero.

Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Post by j45 »

Hackbraten wrote: post #15

Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder. Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.

It's a clean way to charge AI to read content too.

Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Post by tailscaler2026 »

htrp wrote: post #26
jgrahamc wrote: post #20

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I am here but I retired from being CTO of Cloudflare in March 2025 [1] and the current CTO is Dane Knecht (dknecht here). What advantage does decoupling Cloudflare Containers from Cloudflare Workers have? [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-pro...

quick piece of feedback, the workers architecture is a little bit annoying when converting from Lambda but hooking up to cloudflare MCP solves 90% of the issues

there's absolutely nothing positive we want to encourage copying from AWS's architectural approach to anything.

Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Post by deadbabe »

moritzruth wrote: post #18
Hackbraten wrote: post #15

Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder. Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.

First you spread the disease, then you sell the cure.

I think this is more of a “keep friends close but enemies closer” type thing.

Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents

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Post by simonw »

avipars wrote: post #27
simonw wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just tried this out: % npx wrangler deploy --temporary wrangler 4.103.0 ──────────────────── You must accept Cloudflare's Terms of Service (https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/) and Privacy Policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/) in order to continue. By typing "yes", you agree to these terms. Type "yes" to continue. … yes Solving proof-of-work challenge… Temporary account ready: Account: Educated Celery (c…

You might want to claim the link or remove it

I redacted it, but if anyone still has at and wants to steal my demo app they're welcome to it.
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