Coder Team 

<p><em>AUSTIN, TX – July 7, 2025</em> – Today, <a href="https://coder.com">Coder</a>, the AI software development company, introduces a major platform upgrade designed specifically for enterprise teams working with AI coding agents. This release brings secure, practical <a href="https://coder.com/solutions">AI-assisted coding</a> into everyday enterprise software development workflows, bridging the gap between promising AI technologies and real-world use.</p>

<p>The launch marks the next chapter in Coder’s mission to make agentic AI a safe, trusted, and integral part of every software development lifecycle. With today’s announcement, Coder is introducing AI cloud development environments (CDEs) that combine full-featured IDEs, dynamic policy governance, and seamless agent orchestration — all within enterprise-controlled infrastructure.</p>

<p>&quot;How engineers develop is growing and evolving quickly, especially as we introduce Claude Code internally,&quot; said Jacqueline Lee, Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic. &quot;With Coder&#39;s flexible architecture, we can seamlessly support developer environments for both humans and AI agents while keeping our engineers productive.&quot;</p>


<h2>Removing the friction for AI in the enterprise</h2>

<p>As AI transforms how code is written, tested, and shipped, enterprises face a daunting challenge: infrastructure built for humans isn’t built for agents. Agents need secure environments, granular permissions, fast boot times, and full toolchain access — all while maintaining governance and compliance.</p>

<p>“The future of software development is clear: human developers collaborating with autonomous coding agents,” said Rob Whiteley, CEO of Coder. “The latest frontier models have demonstrated the potential of agentic coding, while also revealing a key requirement: each agent needs its own secure development environment. Yet today’s solutions often lack the enterprise-grade security, auditability, and flexibility that organizations demand. With our latest release, Coder empowers enterprises to bring AI out of the lab and into production, ensuring velocity without compromising security or control.”</p>

<p>Coder’s upgraded platform is enhanced with new agentic AI and human productivity capabilities:</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>AI Workspaces:</strong> Fully isolated, ephemeral environments where AI agents and developers work side-by-side with full context and control.</li>
<li><strong>Agent Boundaries</strong>: A dual-firewall model to precisely scope agent access, ensuring security without degrading productivity.</li>
<li><strong>Coder Tasks</strong>: A unified interface for running and managing AI agents with full context, isolation, and control.</li>
<li><strong>Prebuilt Workspaces</strong>: Development starts instantly on any branch, eliminating setup time for both agents and humans.</li>
<li><strong>Coder Desktop</strong>: A local companion app that connects remote workspaces to native tools, enabling tasks that browser IDEs can&#39;t support, like desktop apps or offline work.</li>
<li><strong>Dynamic Parameters</strong>: Intelligent workspace creation forms that flex to user input, enforce policy, and eliminate Terraform sprawl.</li>
</ul>

<p>This release also introduces a redesigned <a href="https://registry.coder.com/">Coder Registry</a>, a marketplace of community and official modules and templates for sharing and managing secure, enterprise-ready dev environments, with built-in modules that accelerate time-to-value for popular AI agents like Claude Code.</p>


<h2>Launch Week: July 7–11, 2025</h2>

<p>To celebrate the release, Coder is hosting a virtual <a href="https://launch.coder.com">Launch Week</a> with daily product reveals, technical deep-dives, and demos. Register now at <a href="https://launch.coder.com">launch.coder.com</a>.</p>

<p><strong>About Coder</strong></p>

<p>Coder is the AI software development company leading the future of autonomous coding. Coder helps teams build fast, stay secure, and scale with control by combining AI coding agents and human developers in one trusted workspace. Coder’s award-winning self-hosted Cloud Development Environment (CDE) gives enterprises the power to govern, audit, and accelerate software development without trade-offs. Learn more at <a href="https://coder.com">coder.com</a>.</p>


Coder’s latest release enables AI agents to become a practical and secure reality for enterprise software development teams

Coder Unveils Enterprise-Grade Platform for Self-Hosted AI Development Environments

Ben Potter

Developer Advocate

<p><em>This post marks Day 1 of Coder Launch Week! We’ll share a new announcement each day. Check back on the <a href="https://launch.coder.com/">Launch Week page</a> for updates.</em></p>

<p>AI coding agents such as Claude Code, Amazon Q, and Aider are exciting to demo, but can be incredibly challenging to operationalize in the real world. For enterprises, security reviews, cost analysis, and governance are table stakes. Agent-assisted programming introduces an entirely new set of challenges that most organizations aren’t prepared for yet.</p>

<p>In this post, we’ll explore why operationalizing coding agents is hard, what risks you need to manage, and how <a href="https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder">Coder Tasks</a> lets you safely and effectively deploy AI agents on your own infrastructure.</p>


<h2>The hidden risks of running agents on local machines</h2>

<p>Most developers we speak to remain skeptical that agents are capable of understanding and working within their codebase. And running agents locally? It’s fine for exploring AI-assisted coding, but not a viable long-term solution.</p>

<p>It doesn’t scale and, worse, it compromises either security or productivity:</p>

<ul>
<li>Granting agents free rein on your laptop exposes your emails, files, source code, and more, <strong>increasing your risk profile.</strong></li>
<li>Constant prompt engineering or approvals for every request <strong>slows work down</strong> and <strong>invites human error</strong>.</li>
</ul>


<h2>Coder Tasks: Bringing coding agents into secure, managed workspaces</h2>

<p>Coder Tasks lets enterprises and hobbyists alike self-host coding agents in practical, secure environments <strong>on your existing infrastructure.</strong></p>

<p>With Coder Tasks, developer teams can use best-in-class agents as true sidekicks: answering questions, fixing bugs, and reviewing their code within their IDEs or through the Coder dashboard.</p>

<p>Whether you prefer in-IDE agents (e.g., Copilot, Windsurf, and Cursor) or headless agents (e.g., Claude Code, Amazon Q, Aider, and Goose), Coder has you covered.</p>

<p>Soon, you’ll be able to work with agents in Slack, GitHub, or via Coder’s CLI and MCP servers.</p>


Screenshot of running tasks asynchronously.

<h2>Confidently provision agents with Templates and Boundaries</h2>

<p>Administrators manage Coder Templates, which are the blueprints for provisioning coding agents, powered via Terraform.</p>

<p>These templates define:</p>

<ul>
<li>The agents your teams use</li>
<li>Boundaries for process isolation</li>
<li>Integration points for MCP tools</li>
<li>Connections to on-prem LLMs, enterprise AI subscriptions, API routers, or cloud LLM providers (e.g., AWS Bedrock)</li>
</ul>


<p>Templates ensure <strong>coding agents operate with the right permissions, in the right places, every time.</strong></p>


<h2>Developer AI adoption is surging in the enterprise</h2>

<p>Over the past two years, AI-assisted development has emerged as a <strong>leading priority</strong> for the enterprise developer productivity teams we work with. This mirrors a broader trend across industries.</p>

<blockquote>
<p>78% of companies reported using AI in at least one function in 2024, up from 55% in 2023. </p>
</blockquote>

<p>— <a href="https://aiindex.stanford.edu/report/">2025 Stanford AI Index Report</a> </p>

<p>Like any new technology, there is a maturity curve. However, almost all developer productivity organizations have introduced lightweight AI assistants to their developers. Among our customers, we are seeing a mix of technology, government, and financial services organizations leading the charge with adopting coding agents.</p>

<p>Claude Code’s creators, Anthropic, have seen strong internal adoption of the agent on remote environments. We’ll be sharing more on this topic soon–stay tuned!</p>


<h2>5 use cases where coding agents shine today</h2>

<p>To help you cut through the hype, here are five practical, low-barrier use cases for coding agents that teams can operationalize right now:</p>

<ul>
<li><strong>Answering questions about the codebase</strong> (e.g., explaining the tech stack or an error) </li>
<li><strong>Prototyping and demo applications</strong> (often referred to as “vibe coding” for quick ideas) </li>
<li><strong>Documentation reviews</strong> (e.g., auditing documentation for correctness) </li>
<li><strong>Visual updates</strong> (e.g., spacing tweaks, text copy changes, etc.) </li>
<li><strong>Experimentation</strong> (e.g., testing what agents can do in your environment) </li>
</ul>


<h2>Secure coding agents without sacrificing their usefulness</h2>

<p>Running coding agents on remote servers already reduces risk by isolating them from your emails, personal disk files, applications, and other information unrelated to the task at hand.</p>

<p>However, it is still important to consider other ways to isolate your agent from doing things you don&#39;t want them to, while ensuring that it still has the agency and information it needs to complete tasks.</p>

<p>Some steps you can take to safeguard your environments include:</p>

<ul>
<li>Issuing <strong>read-only API tokens</strong> for systems providing context for the task at hand like GitHub, Jira, and Backstage</li>
<li>Enforcing <strong>firewalls</strong> so agents can only connect through your corporate proxy or API gateway, blocking direct access to external servers</li>
<li>Audit tool calls and consider <strong>AI proxies</strong> or <strong>self-hosted LLMs</strong> to prevent leaking secrets or source code to LLMs</li>
<li>Set <strong>resource quotas</strong> to ensure agents do not spend too much in CPU, GPU, or tokens on a given task</li>
</ul>


<h2>The future: Always-on coding agent assistants</h2>

<p>As LLMs and agents improve, they’ll:</p>

<ul>
<li>Run longer in the background <strong>without interruption</strong></li>
<li><strong>Debug</strong> their own work</li>
<li>Gather <strong>richer context</strong> beyond the initial prompt from previous solutions, architectural patterns, related PRs, or product requirements (via MCP)</li>
<li><strong>Communicate seamlessly</strong> with the user via tried-and-true channels (e.g., GitHub, Slack, Jira)</li>
</ul>

<p>We believe organizations that invest in agent-friendly, automated environments today will be the ones that thrive as agents pick up more of the background work–even while you sleep!</p>


Coder Tasks Demo | Running AI Coding Agents at Enterprise Scale

<h2>Get started with Coder Tasks today</h2>

<p>Coder Tasks is available in our Open Source and Premium plans (v2.25 and above). All you need is access to an LLM provider (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama, Amazon Bedrock) and a compatible template.</p>

<p>👉 <a href="https://coder.com/docs/tutorials/quickstart#whats-next"><strong>Quickstart</strong>: Install Coder and try Coder Tasks</a></p>

<p>👉 <a href="https://coder.com/docs/ai-coder"><strong>Tutorial</strong>: Add a Tasks template to your Coder deployment</a></p>


Coder Tasks lets enterprises and hobbyists alike self-host coding agents in practical, secure environments on your existing infrastructure.

Day 1: Run AI Coding Agents on Your Own Infrastructure with Coder Tasks

Marco Martinez

Sr Content Marketing Strategist

<p>We recently hit an incredible milestone: <strong>100,000 GitHub stars across all Coder projects.</strong> This moment is more than just a number. It’s a celebration of the developers, contributors, and community members who’ve helped shape the future of cloud-based development.</p>

<p>From day one, our mission at Coder has been clear: <strong>empower developers with secure, consistent, and flexible cloud development environments.</strong> Reaching this milestone reinforces that the open source community believes in that vision too.</p>


<h2>Open source at the heart of Coder</h2>

<p>We launched the <a href="https://coder.com/cde">Coder Community Edition</a> to give developers full access to Coder on their own terms, with no license keys, no trial subscriptions, and no sales hoops. From the start, it was open source and fully self hosted, designed to let developers deploy, inspect, and customize every part of the platform.</p>

<p>Coder’s core codebase is written in Go, and every CLI, UI, and backend component is open and extensible. Developers can audit the code, report bugs, suggest features, and contribute improvements in the open.</p>

<p>Since then, thousands of developers from indie builders to large teams have adopted Coder and become part of the movement. We now maintain more than 100 public repositories, from prebuilt templates to automation tools. At the center is <a href="https://github.com/coder/code-server">code-server</a>, which brings VS Code to the browser and powers development environments around the world.</p>

<p>And our community is not just along for the ride. They are actively shaping the platform. Contributors like <a href="https://github.com/benz0li">Olivier Benz (benz0li)</a> have played a key role in maintaining code-server’s compatibility with upstream VS Code releases, pushing dozens of updates to keep it current. Others, like <a href="https://github.com/jawnsy">Jonathan Yu (jawnsy)</a>, have improved CI workflows, build tooling, and version handling, while <a href="https://github.com/SuperSandro2000">Sandro Jaeskel (SuperSandro2000)</a> has helped optimize Docker images and streamline container usage.</p>

<p>These are just a few of the many developers helping drive Coder forward in ways both visible and behind the scenes, shaping a platform that belongs to all of us.
Open source is not just how we build. It is who we are.</p>


<h2>Join the Coder community</h2>

<p>Coder is powered by people and there is a place here for every kind of contributor. Whether you are a seasoned engineer, an open source enthusiast, or someone just getting started, your input matters. From sharing feedback and feature ideas to building templates, helping others troubleshoot, or simply asking great questions, every interaction helps make Coder better.</p>

<p>This is not just a development tool. It is a collaborative space where builders support builders, and everyone has something to offer. Whether you want to:</p>

<ul>
<li>Maintain or contribute to open source projects</li>
<li>Create tutorials, templates, or guides for others</li>
<li>Join discussions and help answer questions</li>
<li>Learn by exploring how others build their environments</li>
</ul>

<p>We invite you to be part of it.</p>


<h2>Here’s how to get involved</h2>

<h3><a href="https://discord.com/invite/coder">Join our Discord</a></h3>

<p>Chat with other developers, get help, share feedback, and stay updated on community events and announcements.</p>

<h3><a href="https://registry.coder.com/">Contribute to the Coder Registry</a></h3>

<p>Build and share your own workspace templates, or explore community-contributed ones to speed up your setup.</p>

<h3><a href="https://github.com/coder/coder/discussions">Join GitHub Discussions</a></h3>

<p>Share ideas, ask questions, and help shape the direction of our open source projects.</p>

<h3><a href="https://www.meetup.com/pro/coder/">Attend a Coder Meetup</a></h3>

<p>Meet other community members, learn from talks and demos, and connect in real life.</p>


<p>Whether you are here to give, learn, build, or all three, this community is yours. Help us shape what is next.</p>


<h2>Introducing the Coder Champions Program</h2>

<p>Coder continues to grow thanks to a passionate community that brings creativity, insight, and energy to everything we do. As we mark 100,000 GitHub stars, we want to recognize the people who make Coder more than just a product. It&#39;s a movement.</p>

<h3>What is it?</h3>

<p>The Coder Champions Program is the start of a broader initiative to recognize the builders, helpers, and advocates who go above and beyond. Whether they are mentoring others, building tools, sparking ideas, or simply lending a hand, these individuals make the Coder community stronger.</p>

<p>We are beginning with our first tier, <strong>Founding Coder Champions</strong>, which sets the stage for deeper involvement, meaningful recognition, and exciting rewards.</p>

<h3>How to qualify</h3>

<ul>
<li>Participate in five community <a href="https://discord.com/invite/coder">Discord chats</a></li>
<li>Star the <a href="https://github.com/coder">Coder GitHub repo</a></li>
<li>Help at least two people in the Discord #help channel</li>
</ul>

<h3>Perks of being a Founding Coder Champion</h3>

<ul>
<li>A unique badge on Discord</li>
<li>An exclusive T-shirt and sticker pack</li>
<li>Invite to a private voice call with the Coder team</li>
<li>Early access to our upcoming roadmap</li>
</ul>

<p>Nominate yourself or someone you admire by dropping a 🎉 on our Discord announcement. Once you meet the criteria, you are officially in. We also want to hear your feedback and suggestions to help shape the future of the program.</p>


<h2>Try out Coder today</h2>

<p>We released Coder as open source because we understand that developers look for transparency, a vibrant community, and low-risk evaluation when adopting a new platform.</p>

<p>Whether you are just discovering Coder for the first time or coming back for a fresh look, there has never been a better moment to get hands-on.</p>

<h3>Getting started is simple and flexible</h3>

<ul>
<li>Clone our GitHub repository and follow the quickstart guide</li>
<li>Deploy on your own infrastructure in minutes with full control and zero friction</li>
<li>Use prebuilt templates or craft your own to match the exact workflows your team needs</li>
</ul>

<p>Coder is built for developers who want speed without sacrificing security, power without giving up control, and modern workflows without vendor lock-in.</p>

<p>You can start exploring in under 10 minutes and make it your own in far less time than you would expect.</p>

<p>So go ahead. Launch your first workspace, customize it, break it, rebuild it, and see what Coder can do. Let’s keep building the future of development together.</p>


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