Your agent built an app. Now what?
Put it somewhere your coworkers can open it from a link, behind your company’s sign-in, not on your laptop or the open web. With Patchy Cloud, you give your agent one setup line, ask it to make the app a Patchy tool, then ask it to publish: coworkers open it after signing in, and people outside your company can’t.
Before you start
Right now, only you can open it. The address your agent gave you, like localhost:3000, points at your own computer. Nobody else can reach it, and it stops when you close the window it runs in or your computer sleeps.
Patchy Cloud runs tools made with its own kit. If your agent built your app another way, say a Next.js site or a Python app with its own server, it won’t run here as it is. Ask your agent to rebuild it as a Patchy tool; it can start from what it already made. A simple report or page can go up as one HTML file, which your agent can prepare.
Tools can’t reach the internet. An app that calls an outside service, such as OpenAI or Stripe, won’t work. To use your company’s data, an admin connects it, such as a Postgres database or a company email address on Pidgeon, and tools reach it through Patchy Cloud.
What you need
- An invitation to Patchy Cloud. It’s in beta: join the waitlist with your work email. If your company is already in, ask an admin to invite you.
- An agent that can run commands on your computer, such as Claude Code or Codex.
- Node.js 22.22.0 or newer, which setup uses to install
patchy, Patchy’s command-line tool. Your agent can check, and the installer tells you if your version is too old. - Chrome, or another Chromium browser such as Edge, on a computer, for you and your coworkers. Phones, Safari and Firefox aren’t supported.
- A company based in the US. The beta is for US companies.
Steps
Get into Patchy Cloud
When your invitation arrives, sign in with a code sent to your email. If you’re the first from your company, you name it and become its admin. If a coworker got there first, ask them to invite you, then choose Join.
Give your agent the setup line
Paste this into the agent that built your app. It installs Patchy, then replies with a link and a short code. Open the link, check the code matches, name this computer and confirm. Your agent can now publish as you.
Paste into your agentSet up Patchy using https://cloud.patchyhq.com/llms.txt
Make it a Patchy tool
Ask your agent to make the app work on Patchy. A simple page can go up as one HTML file. Anything that saves things or reacts to clicks becomes a Patchy project, which your agent rebuilds from what it already made. It runs the result on your computer first, so you can try it, including as a coworker would see it.
Say, for exampleMake the app in this folder work on Patchy
If the app should remember things, like entries or requests, ask your agent to save them in Patchy’s storage. Everyone who can open the app can see what’s saved in it, so keep out anything some coworkers shouldn’t see.
Publish it
Patchy Cloud checks the app and puts it live at your company’s address.
Then sayPublish it with Patchy
$ patchy publishacme/expense-helper v1 shared with your companyopen cloud.patchyhq.com/acme/expense-helperSend your coworkers the link
They open it in their browser and sign in once, with nothing to install, and they don’t need an agent. People outside your company can’t open it. The app also appears on your company’s Home in Patchy Cloud. To add a coworker who isn’t in yet, an admin invites them.
Change it, or go back
Ask your agent for a change and publish again. Every version is kept, so if one goes wrong, roll back from the app’s Versions page in Patchy Cloud, or ask your agent to. Rolling back changes the app, not the data saved in it.
Who can open it
- Yes
Coworkers signed in to your company
All of them, with nothing extra to set up.
- No
People outside your company
They can’t open it. Anyone signed out is asked to sign in.
- Not yet
Only some coworkers, like one team
A company tool opens for everyone in the company.
- If you choose
Anyone with the link
Only if you make it public, which works for pages and simple tools. A public tool can’t save data or read company data, and tools that run code on Patchy’s servers can’t be public.
Questions
Can’t I just send them the files?
A single page, sometimes. An app that saves things won’t work that way: each coworker would have to get it running on their own computer, and nobody would see anyone else’s entries.
Could I use an ordinary web host instead?
Yes, if it’s fine for anyone with the link to open the app, or you’ll set up a login for it yourself. Patchy Cloud is for tools only your company should open, so the company sign-in comes with every tool.
Do I need to know how to code?
No. You say what you want, and your agent writes it.
Do my coworkers need an agent?
No. They need an invitation and Chrome, or another Chromium browser, on a computer. The app opens like any website.
Is it free?
Yes, during the beta. If pricing comes, the beta terms promise at least 7 days’ notice by email.
Is what’s saved in it backed up?
Keep your own copy of anything you can’t afford to lose. Patchy Cloud is in beta, and its terms say it may lose data.
I use Claude Code, or Codex.
There’s a guide for each: Claude Code and Codex.