Since coding agents like Claude Code and Codex came out, I've been pretty obsessed with them. It's hard not to when you're getting a 20x discount on inference. I've also been frustrated by them a lot. I hated walking around with my laptop lid open while connected to a hotspot on my phone, having to tediously accept commands so I don't lose my root directory, and running out of RAM when running multiple agents that were spinning up dev servers in different worktrees at once.A lot of people would say existing cloud agents are the solution to this, as none of the above problems apply to any cloud agent, but all the cloud agent products I tried had problems worse than local agents. Waiting for the VM to get set up when responding to a task made them feel like they were only for fire and forget workflows, and I missed going back and forth with the agent and using plan mode. On top of that, the whole VM was a black box and I had no way of verifying the agent's work besides checking out its b...