The cloud was built for humans. Dashboards, consoles, and command lines dominated how developers interacted with infrastructure. But a new era is emerging, one where autonomous agents are becoming the primary users, not people. And the old human-centric cloud model no longer fits.
Daytona was born from this realization. It is not another cloud built for humans. It is a cloud built for agents. Fast, programmable, API-first. Every environment, every operation, every capability is designed to be accessed and controlled by an AI Agent.
Traditional clouds assume someone is there to click through dashboards or SSH into machines. Daytona assumes no one is watching. It gives agents everything they need, without ever opening a web browser.
TL;DR
Daytona provides agents with programmatic interfaces to control all sandbox states
All developer tools inside sandboxes have agent-native programmatic interfaces
Declarative builders eliminate the need for local context
Every interface is designed for AI agent interaction, not human workflows
From Manual to Autonomous
Currently, developers spin up sandboxes by hand. They configure environments manually. They build Docker images step-by-step. For an autonomous agent, these workflows are barriers, not features.
Daytona flips the model. Every action an agent needs, from checking the state of a sandbox to editing files, from executing code to building a brand-new environment, all is accessible via clean, simple APIs. No dashboards. No human-in-the-loop bottlenecks. Just pure, programmatic control.
Inside every Daytona Sandbox, agent tooling is ready to go. Git is installed and configured. Language servers are standing by to assist with code intelligence. A complete file system API lets agents open, edit, and manipulate project files in real time. Shell commands can be executed remotely without needing to log in. Code can be run inside the sandbox as easily as making a single API call.
These capabilities aren't afterthoughts. They are the core design of Daytona.
Building Docker Without Local Context
Humans need to build Docker files locally then upload to a container registry to be able to create sandboxes using that image. Agents don't have a local context so they can't do this. The solution is a declarative builder, where the agent just defines the dependencies and Daytona will build the Docker image on the fly and create a sandbox from it. This approach drastically improves the agent experience by eliminating a major technical barrier—agents can now provision custom environments without needing local build capabilities, allowing them to operate independently and efficiently within their programmatic constraints.
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The First Native Cloud for AI Agents
Traditional platforms retrofit agent capabilities into human-centered architectures. Daytona starts with a fundamentally different premise: build for agents first. We've created an environment where AI operates at machine speed with programmatic control over every infrastructure component.
In the emerging agent economy, competitive advantage belongs to organizations whose infrastructure speaks the native language of AI.
Ready to give your agents the cloud they deserve? Start building on Daytona today.
