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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 things like PR previews and code review. Being able to deploy a preview to a working URL for free is a huge reduction in friction.

I hope it doesn't get abused so much that they turn it off again.

simonw 4 hours ago [ - ]

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 (created)
   Claim within: 60 minutes
   Claim URL: https://dash.cloudflare.com/claim-preview?claimToken=CAVe7LzWiGad-redacted
  Total Upload: 13.79 KiB / gzip: 4.12 KiB
  Uploaded cloudflare-redirect-resolver (2.27 sec)
  Deployed cloudflare-redirect-resolver triggers (0.50 sec)
    https://cloudflare-redirect-resolver.educated-celery.workers.dev
  Current Version ID: 5c12da7f-2749-4ccc-a8f6-79b85da98d10

I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am, but it did work - https://cloudflare-redirect-resolver.educated-celery.workers... will be live for the next 59 minutes.

bstsb 4 hours ago [ - ]

> I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am

as far as i’m aware, that’s fully binding and often an accepted practise - take Minecraft’s server software, where you must accept the EULA with a text flag before running

nextaccountic 44 minutes ago [ - ]

but if an agent automatically accepts an EULA for you, is it binding?

halJordan 17 minutes ago [ - ]

It would have to be. And it's not new in the law at all. The principal-agent problem was one of the main enablers of the golden age of piracy. But that doesn't mean it isnt a solved problem now (in the law and practically)

avipars 4 hours ago [ - ]

You might want to claim the link or remove it

simonw 3 hours ago [ - ]

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

xyzzy_plugh 4 hours ago [ - ]

Why?

throw1234567891 3 hours ago [ - ]

Why not

aleksiy123 4 hours ago [ - ]

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.