Day 5: Composable by Design – What will you build? + Launch Week Recap
This post is part of Coder Launch Week (July 7–11, 2025). Each day, we’re sharing innovations that make secure, scalable cloud development easier. Follow along here.
Coder Registry: Improved and open for contributions
A growing marketplace for secure, enterprise-ready modules—built to share, remix, and accelerate innovation across teams.
Challenge: Customization without reinventing the wheel
Every team’s cloud development workflow is unique, but building that experience from scratch can be slow and error-prone. Whether you're spinning up workspaces on Kubernetes, integrating with internal tools, or enabling AI agents, it’s not just about provisioning infrastructure. It’s about composing a complete, reliable dev environment.
To make that possible, Coder was built to be composable by design.
At the foundation of this model are:
- Templates: Terraform-based blueprints that define the infrastructure for a Coder workspace (e.g., EC2, OpenStack, or Kubernetes).
- Modules: Add-on components that extend templates with extra functionality (e.g., installing JupyterLab, configuring AI agents, or cloning a Git repo).
With just a few lines of Terraform, platform teams can mix and match these components to create powerful, production-ready environments. But until recently, discovering high-quality modules—or publishing your own—was harder than it should be.
Solution: Major updates to the Coder Registry
The Coder Registry is the hub for discovering, publishing, and consuming templates and modules. Here’s what’s new:
- Contributor Guides: Clear documentation and walkthroughs to help you get started fast.
- New Governance Process: Submit your module for validation to appear in the public Registry, or publish privately with zero friction.
- Stronger Architecture: More resilient backend to support scaling and faster updates.
- New Modules including JetBrains Fleet, Zed, JetBrains Toolbox, AgentAPI, Local RDP Button
These updates make it easier for teams to build with and contribute to Coder in a scalable, governed way.
From quick-start cloud templates to plug-and-play integrations, the Registry is how innovation gets shared across the Coder ecosystem. Whether you're building for your team or the community, the path to contribution is now open, supported, and scalable
Contribute and win a cool prize ✨
To celebrate this launch, we’re kicking off a Registry Bounty Program and we want your contributions.
Between now and August 15th, submit a module or template that matches one of our in-demand contribution ideas and claim the GitHub issue linked to the bounty. If your contribution is accepted, you’ll earn exclusive prizes and a shoutout in our community.
Whether it’s a module for an AI agent, a workspace helper, or an integration with a popular dev tool, we’re looking for contributions that help teams go from zero to productive — fast.
Get started with the Coder Registry
Browse the Registry, and check out our new contribution guidelines to submit your own modules.
ICYMI: July 2025 Launch Week lookback 👀
What a week. Over five days, we highlighted powerful new features that make Coder faster, more secure, more flexible—and more ready than ever for the future of development.
Here's a quick recap of everything we launched:
🧠 Day 1: Coder Tasks – AI agents you actually control
AI coding agents are here. Most tools force you to choose between security and usability.
- Coder Tasks: Run Claude Code, Amazon Q, and other agents in secure, self-hosted environments with real-time control.
- Isolated agent workspaces, GitHub integration, and a fully vendor-neutral architecture built for scale.
✨ Agentic automation, without cloud lock-in.
🛡️ Day 2: Intelligent governance – Guardrails you don’t hate
Governance often comes at the cost of developer freedom. We don’t think it has to.
- Dynamic Parameters: Smart forms that flex with developer input. No duplicated templates or fragile workarounds.
- Agent Boundaries: Dual-layer isolation to safely run agents and humans in the same workspace.
- Workspace Presets: Reduce onboarding friction with easy workspace creation in just a few clicks.
- Notifications: Keep teams in the loop on important events.
✨ Governance that scales and stays out of your way.
🖥️ Day 3: Hybrid development – Remote dev that feels local
Remote development only works if developers actually want to use it.
- Coder Desktop: Instant, secure connectivity for a seamless development experience that just works.
- MCP Server: First steps toward unified, native-feeling cloud/local development.
✨ Portability, meet performance. You’re going to get along just fine.
⚡ Day 4: Instant infrastructure – No setup required
Developers shouldn’t have to wait for their environment to catch up.
- Prebuilt Workspaces: Start coding instantly—on any branch, in any repo.
- Dev Containers Rework: Full spec support, multi-container setups, automatic rebuilds.
- JetBrains Toolbox Plugin: Official way to run and manage JetBrains IDEs in Coder.
✨ Developer environments, ready before you are.
🧩 Day 5: Composable by design – A smarter way to build
Every team needs something different. Coder’s curated marketplace of templates and modules makes it easy to create and share.
What we shipped:
- It's easier than ever to contribute
- Governance is clearer and more scalable
- The platform is more stable and performant
What’s next
Launch Week might be wrapping up, but we’re just getting started. This week marked a major step toward agent-native development — with Coder Tasks and smarter governance forming the foundation for bringing AI into real, production-grade workflows. Combined with instant workspaces, local-feeling remote dev, and a growing ecosystem of reusable modules, the path to scalable, secure software development has never been clearer.
We’ve been energized by the feedback, the questions, and the early adoption of what we’ve launched—and we’re especially excited to see how you push these new features further.
→ Have an idea? Install Coder open source and start building.
→ Want to share feedback and connect with others? Join our Discord.
→ Not sure what to do next? Talk to our team — we’re here to help.
→ Looking for more future-looking insights? Grab a seat to our upcoming webinar with the Developer Experience team at Anthropic, the company behind Claude Code, where we'll discuss the impact of AI agents on software development.