Machine-grade isolation
A cell is a dedicated machine boundary—not another project process sharing ambient host access.
DevCell
Give every repository—and every coding agent—its own machine boundary.
Prototype onlineControl plane · CLI · durable operations · workspace planning
A private development fabric
From repository to isolated workspace—without handing over the host.
DevCell turns a repository into a policy-controlled development machine. Humans, IDEs, and coding agents share one typed control plane while project code stays behind a dedicated cell boundary.
01PointChoose a repository
02ProvisionCreate an isolated cell
03ConnectOpen your tools and agents
04ResetSnapshot, fork, or destroy
Devcontainer native
Keep the project formats teams already use. DevCell adds isolation and lifecycle around them.
Built for agentic work
Replace implicit trust with typed capabilities, durable operations, and an inspectable audit trail.
One control plane
A smaller trust surface for powerful tools.
Agents can install dependencies, run builds, expose previews, and iterate quickly inside a cell. The host retains authority over credentials, routing, storage, and lifecycle.
Read the security model →clients
CLI · IDE · agentcontrol
celld · policy · auditboundary
CellOS machineworkload
devcontainer · servicesThe golden path
One command creates a durable cell operation.
The hackathon prototype demonstrates the public control-plane contract locally. The same API is designed to drive the Firecracker appliance path as it comes online.
$ devcell cell create \
–name golden-path \
–repo github.com/example/app
operationop_01J…
cellcell_01J…
stateready
See the system