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Great timing as I'm exploring the space to get rid of Cursor in our stack. For local dev everyone is switching to Claude Code or Codex. The state of the art for cloud agents in my opinion right now is Cursor. But their pricing model per-user doesn't make sense when what I want is to enable anyone in the company to fix things in the product. 2 things not immediately clear from your homepage: - do you support full computer use? Again Cursor is the best I've tried there - what kind of triggers do you support? We have in particular one automation built with cursor to auto approve PRs that are low-risk. It triggers on a specific comment on a PR Finally some advice from a user's pov: you need to invest a lot in the onboarding experience. I tried Devin today and it couldn't get it to work after one hour of fiddling. How do you store the repo's setup scripts? Cursor cloud is pretty opaque and annoying to configure on that side. Anyway I'll try it!


On computer use: Yes. Sandboxes come with a computer-use CLI for driving Linux GUI apps via X11.

On triggers: Cron, GitHub (PRs, issues, @twill mentions in review comments), Slack, Linear, Notion, Asana webhooks, plus CLI and web. Our PR-comment workflow is you would have to tag @twill with an instruction. That being said, you can also setup a daily cron on Twill that checks PRs with a specific label like Confidence Score : x/5 and tell it to auto-approve when 5/5 for example.

On setup scripts: Per-repo entrypoint script, env vars, and ports, all accessible on the UI. There is a dedicated Dev Environment agent mode that you start with to setup the infra. You can steer the agent into how to setup if it gets stuck. So this should be smooth. The agent can also rewrite the entrypoint mid-task.

There is also a Twill skill you can add to your local agents to dispatch tasks to Twill. Meaning you can research and plan locally using your CLI and delegate the implementation to a sandbox on Twill.


I’ve been hacking on something in this vein and would love your feedback. What if you could reuse your CI env by using Github Actions as your sandbox. You can reuse the caching, any oidc based roles and self host via runs-on.com for cost and performance. We expose a claude code web experience of interactive low latency chat. I have a working prototype I’m happy to share if you think it would be interesting.


This is very convenient but has limitations. GitHub actions are not built to resume state (conversations in our case) and handle multi player experiences.

However reusing the GitHub workflows out of the box feels really nice


I’m the founder of runs-on.com, we should talk!


Sent you some feedback from the app, I can't get GitHub to connect. Feel free to contact me over email to troubleshoot!


Mmh this works on my end. Sending you an email. Ty




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