Warp Factories Moves Coding Agents From Laptops to the Cloud
Warp launches open, code-defined infrastructure for running fleets of cloud coding agents across triage, spec, implementation, review, and verification.
- Warp Factories launches as open infrastructure for running cloud coding agents across the full SDLC
- Factories defined as version-controlled YAML, similar to Terraform for agent configuration
- Default agents cover triage, spec, implementation, and review with computer-use verification on Linux and Mac
- Multi-model and multi-harness: run Warp's agent, Claude Code, or Codex as the harness
- Observer agents grade runs and open PRs against factory config to self-improve over time
- Closed early access with $10k in usage credits for qualifying orgs via request form
Warp just launched Warp Factories, an infrastructure layer for running fleets of coding agents across the entire software development lifecycle. Instead of treating agents as personal tools that developers run on their laptops, factories move the work to the cloud, define it as version-controlled code, and let teams measure, benchmark, and self-improve their agent workflows over time. Warp Factories provide flexible, open infrastructure to accelerate companies building internal cloud software factories, helping engineering leaders measure and improve coding agent ROI over time.
The problem with laptop agents
Warp CEO Zach Lloyd argues that the current pattern, where every engineer installs their own coding agent locally, has two structural flaws. The first is measurement: teams can tell that agents help, but can not tell whether the productivity gain justifies the token spend. The second is governance. Running agents in the cloud, steering them, bringing work into a local environment, setting up memory across agents, and setting up evals is a huge infrastructure undertaking to do right.
Factories reframe the problem. A cloud software factory is an automation loop around the software development lifecycle: triage, spec, implement, review, verify, ship, monitor, where a mix of agents and humans moves work forward at each step. Warp is betting this becomes as ubiquitous as CI/CD, and that most teams should not be rebuilding it from scratch.
Terraform, but for agents
The core primitive is a factory defined in YAML. Repositories, agent roles, models, permissions, triggers, and human checkpoints all live in one config that can be rolled back, canaried, and tested like any other infrastructure. A minimal definition looks like this: