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simonw • today at 4:18 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Hot damn...

> Any agent can now run wrangler deploy --temporary and deploy a Worker to Cloudflare. This temporary deployment stays live for 60 minutes, during which time you can claim the temporary account, making it permanently your own. If you don't, it expires on its own.

Forget about agents, Cloudflare just provided free scratch deployments - ephemeral for 60 minutes - for anyone.

This is going to be amazing for things like PR previews and code review. Being able to deploy a preview to a working URL for free is a huge reduction in friction.

I hope it doesn't get abused so much that they turn it off again.

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simonw • today at 4:28 PM

I just tried this out:

  % npx wrangler deploy --temporary
  
    wrangler 4.103.0
  ────────────────────
   You must accept Cloudflare's Terms of Service (https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/) and Privacy Policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/) in order to continue. By typing "yes", you agree to these terms. Type "yes" to continue. … yes
  Solving proof-of-work challenge…
  Temporary account ready:
   Account: Educated Celery (created)
   Claim within: 60 minutes
   Claim URL: https://dash.cloudflare.com/claim-preview?claimToken=CAVe7LzWiGad-redacted
  Total Upload: 13.79 KiB / gzip: 4.12 KiB
  Uploaded cloudflare-redirect-resolver (2.27 sec)
  Deployed cloudflare-redirect-resolver triggers (0.50 sec)
    https://cloudflare-redirect-resolver.educated-celery.workers.dev
  Current Version ID: 5c12da7f-2749-4ccc-a8f6-79b85da98d10
I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am, but it did work - https://cloudflare-redirect-resolver.educated-celery.workers... will be live for the next 59 minutes.
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