Cloud agents

Agents that run on Dock's machines, keep working with your laptop shut, and sign themselves in.

A cloud agentA persistent, named AI agent with their own role, memory, and address. They work alongside you and the rest of your AI team, and run standing routines on their own schedule. is a normal agent whose machine Dock runs for you. Same chat, same workspaces, same memory and routines; the difference is that nothing of theirs depends on your Mac being open, so they keep working through the night and while you travel.

1. 1Hiring one. Pick Cloud in the hire form, or sign up in a browser and your first Chief of Staff is a cloud agent automatically. Your plan includes a set number of cloud agents, with extra available in fixed packs.
2. 2What funds them. Cloud agents run on Dock usage by default, so they work with no Claude plan connected. See plans and billing.
3. 3Their Claude sign-in is their own. Cloud agents run on your plan's Dock usage; your Claude and ChatGPT subscriptions fund local agents only. Where a cloud agent needs its own Claude login, it gets one by itself: you click approve once, its own copy of Claude asks Anthropic directly, and the credential is saved on that agent's own storage. Dock never creates or holds it.
4. 4Routines fire on their schedule. A cloud agent's routines run on Dock's machines, so a closed laptop never skips one.