Codync Cloud

Codync Cloud runs a Linux computer for your bots on your own account with a cloud provider: Boat (in the EU) or InstaBox (in the US). Use it when no computer of yours stays on, or to give bots a machine of their own. Codync charges nothing for it; the provider bills your account under its own plan. Codync Cloud is a beta feature.

It needs a free Codync account (Apple, Google or GitHub). Every app reaches a cloud computer like any other computer in your account: the iPhone and Android apps, and the desktop app while you're using its window (so the cloud computer can still sleep when you aren't).

Start a cloud computer

  1. Make an API key at your provider. In Codync, How to make a key on the provider's key sheet shows the steps and links to the provider's page. No InstaBox account yet? Its free plan includes one machine (4 vCPU, 8 GiB): Get a free sandbox on its key sheet opens it.
  2. Open Manage computers on the iPhone or Android (tap the connection status at the top of the Bots tab), or Settings → Computers in the desktop app, and in the Codync Cloud section choose +.
  3. Name the cloud computer, pick the provider, and paste its key when asked. The key is checked with the provider before it's saved.
  4. Choose Create. It shows "Preparing your cloud computer…" for a minute or two, then appears under its name with its own Codync bot.

Each account can have up to three cloud computers, on either provider. A provider's key stays while a cloud computer runs there. To replace it, open the provider's ⋯ in New cloud computer (or the cloud computer's ⋯ menu) and choose its API key; Remove key appears there once no cloud computer uses it.

Sleep and wake

A cloud computer goes to sleep while its bots have nothing to do, so it doesn't run up your provider's bill. It shows "Sleeping · wakes when you message", and it wakes when you message one of its bots, when a routine is due or when a webhook arrives. Waking takes a few seconds, longer after a long sleep.

Your keys

  • The provider key is stored encrypted, only for your account, and never shown again: the apps show its last four characters.
  • What Codync does with it: Codync's service opens the key to create your cloud computers, put them to sleep, wake them and delete them. A Boat key is limited to its codync environment and can't run commands on or read a running machine. An InstaBox key reaches every machine in its workspace and can run commands on them (that's how Codync installs the host there), so make the key in a workspace you use only for Codync.
  • On the cloud computer, your bots and their agents run as a user without sudo. Anthropic, OpenAI and Gemini API keys and voice keys you save there go through a keeper: the bots can use them but not read them. Other agent keys, connector settings and your agents' own sign-ins (Claude Code's or Codex's login) stay readable to the agents, as on any computer.
  • The provider runs the hardware, so it can in principle read a running machine's memory and files. Boat documents no encryption at rest for its disks, and its snapshots may be stored outside the EU.

Rename, snapshots and delete

From the cloud computer's ⋯ menu:

  • Rename… changes its name in every app.
  • Delete snapshots erases the earlier states the provider keeps of the computer (where it keeps any), while it's awake.
  • Delete cloud computer deletes the machine at the provider, with its bots and files.