Cloudflare plans to backport Agents API into regular Durable Objects
Sunil Pai · npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare · Mar 19, 2025 · at 15:14
Sunil Pai, systems engineer at Cloudflare, discusses architecture plans for Cloudflare's Durable Objects and AI Agent tooling.
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“We're probably going to backport that API into, like, regular durable objects now, like, out of the library.”
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