Warp just shipped a feature that solves one of the most frustrating problems with long-running AI coding agents: what happens when you need to close your laptop. The answer is Cloud Handoff -- a new capability that automatically migrates an active local agent conversation to the cloud the moment your machine goes to sleep, so the work keeps going without you.

The problem it actually solves

Anyone who has used an AI agent to tackle a large refactor or a multi-step deployment knows the anxiety: the task takes 20 minutes, you need to leave your desk, and closing the lid kills everything. You come back to a dead session and have to start over, re-explaining the entire context from scratch.

Cloud Handoff eliminates that worry. The conversation, context, and artifacts carry forward automatically -- no copy-pasting prompts, no re-explaining the task. When the cloud agent finishes, you can verify locally, iterate, or ship.

How it works

Warp's agent platform is called Oz -- it's the orchestration layer that coordinates agents whether they run locally on your machine or in the cloud. Oz is the orchestration platform for cloud agents that powers all of Warp's intelligent features, designed to coordinate agents at scale -- understanding your codebase, executing tasks autonomously, and adapting to your workflows.

The cloud sync feature syncs agent conversations to the cloud, making them accessible across devices, shareable with teammates, and persistent even after logging out. The handoff mechanism is what's new: instead of just saving a snapshot, it actively promotes a running local session into a full cloud agent run that continues executing.