Reachpad CLI
A CLI tool for running AI coding agents in persistent cloud workspaces with durable disk and memory storage.
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Description
If you use an AI coding assistant like Claude Code or Codex to build a real application, you quickly hit a wall: each session starts from a blank slate, and anything the agent installed, wrote, or configured is gone the moment you close your laptop or the session times out. Reachpad CLI gives that AI agent a proper home instead — a cloud workspace that stays exactly as you left it, with your files, dependencies, and running processes intact, so the agent can pick up work hours or days later without you re-explaining the whole project from scratch.
Under the hood, Reachpad provisions Linux VMs with persistent disk and memory storage, so workspace state survives pause and resume cycles — and paused workspaces cost nothing, which matters for agent sessions that run intermittently over days. It supports Git integration, workspace forking for parallel experiments, port publishing for shareable preview links, and a time-reverting feature to roll back a workspace to an earlier state, plus multi-agent orchestration for running several coding agents against the same project. Access is available via CLI, MCP, or REST API, and it currently targets Claude and Codex agents specifically. It's written in Rust, ships build-provenance attestations, and uses WorkOS for authentication.
💬 Our review
The short version: Reachpad CLI solves a real pain point — persistent cloud workspaces for AI coding agents — with a genuinely generous free tier, but it's a five-star-GitHub, 23-commit side project from a young company, not a battle-tested platform yet.
Compared to GitHub Codespaces or Gitpod, Reachpad is far earlier-stage: those platforms have years of production hardening, broad IDE and CI integrations, and large user bases, while Reachpad has essentially none of that track record yet, though its pause-costs-nothing model and time-reverting feature are neat, agent-specific touches the incumbents don't offer out of the box. One thing worth flagging clearly: despite living on GitHub, the reachpad-cli repository is source-available under an all-rights-reserved license from Tako Research, not an OSI-approved open-source license — you can read the code, but you can't fork, redistribute, or self-host it the way you could with a truly open project, so don't assume GitHub presence equals open source here.
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Palier gratuit : 10 workspaces, 5 simultanés, 166h40 de temps de calcul inclus, sans carte bancaire requise. Workspaces en pause = 0 coût. Tarifs supérieurs uniquement sur devis (contact commercial).
Pros
Palier gratuit généreux (166h40 de calcul, 10 workspaces) sans carte bancaire
Workspaces en pause facturés à 0, idéal pour des sessions d'agent IA intermittentes
Fonctionnalités pensées pour les agents IA : fork de workspace, retour en arrière dans le temps, orchestration multi-agents
Accès flexible via CLI, MCP ou API REST
Cons
Projet très jeune (5 étoiles GitHub, 23 commits) sans historique de fiabilité prouvé
Licence source-available, tous droits réservés (Tako Research) — malgré la présence sur GitHub, ce n'est PAS un projet open source
Écosystème et intégrations bien plus limités que GitHub Codespaces ou Gitpod
Support limité à Claude et Codex, pas d'autres agents IA pour l'instant