How we set up our cloud agent environment
Jul 30, 2026Mathew Hogan & Arvind Saripalli

Summary
This post details the productization of the cloud agent development environment. Key contributions include: 1. Agnosticizing dev utilities for Linux VMs using a Dockerfile. 2. Implementing security features for cloud agents, such as network egress restrictions, scoped git access, secret scanning, and secret redaction. 3. Building the 'anydev' CLI tool to simplify build commands, manage long-running processes, and provide help menus. 4. Establishing a self-healing environment using Cursor Cloud MCP and the Cloud Doctor automation to diagnose and recover unhealthy environments and improve agent workflows by analyzing traces and fixing skills or simplifying paths. This has resulted in cloud agents authoring a majority of merged PRs.