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Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

ID

1989

Status

new

Published

22 Jun 2026, 6:01 AM

Fetched

27 Jun 2026, 8:23 PM

Provider

Simon Willison

Category

developer-ai

Original URL

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/21/temporary-cloudflare-accounts/

Source URL

https://simonwillison.net/atom/everything/

Excerpt

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well. Short version: you can now create a Cloudflare Workers project and run this, without even creating a Cloudflare account: npx wrangler deploy --temporary Cloudflare will deploy the application to a new, ephemeral project which will stay live for 60 minutes. I had GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop build this test application providing a tool for following HTTP redirects and returning the final destination. The temporary deployment worked as advertised. Running the deployment spits out the URL to a page for claiming the new project, for if you want it to last for more than 60 minutes. Here's what that claim screen looks like: Via Hacker News Tags: cloudflare