Cloudflare Agents Week Preview: What to Expect

Hello everyone and welcome to this week in net is the April the 10th 2026 edition. This is a short edition only for Agents Week. This is an Agents Week teaser. I your host Ron Tume and today I'm actually in the middle of the Atlantic in the island of Madera. Actually not in the middle of Atlantic, more close to Africa. And with me I have Minglu and Annie Huang. Hello. How are you? Hello. Hi. Before we go into details, uh can you explain to us where are you based? Hi everyone. I'm Ming. I am based out of our San Francisco. And you? And hi everyone. My name is Annie. Um, I'm based out of the New York office. Our New York office, interesting fact, is in the One World Trade Center. We get this lovely view of the entire city. I'm not there right now, but um, it's also a really awesome place to be. It is. It is. Actually, Val from our social team was just there in New York in the office taking amazing photos. So, the the views are really astonishing and and amazing. To be honest, I'm not too bad. I'm in Madera Island and you can actually see a bit of Madera Island here and the ocean. Oh well, not too much but you get the drift. uh agents week. It's Cloudflare's first agents week. And of course, Cloudflare does this thing we call innovation weeks almost since from the start. Although at the start it wasn't called innovation week after a few years of company, it became a real thing innovation weeks with the more important one usually called birthday week in September when Cauther does its birthday. But uh agents week is the first one we do of these innovation weeks full of deadlines, full of things we want to announce and share. What can we say about agents week? What is agents week and why are we doing a first one? Because usually at this time of the year usually we do developers week but not this year. Yeah. Want to start? Uh sure. Yeah. I mean I think it's it's just so topical and timely now, right? Everyone is talking about agents. Everyone is building agents. And so, you know, I think for this innovation week really want to show the world why, you know, Cloudflare is the best place to build, deploy and secure agents. I think like clearly like the we're like go the world is like going through a change largely driven by things like agentic coding. You know, I think like AI like because of agentic coding agents or AI are generating like an order of magnitude more code than developers. People instead of building like normal web apps, right? They're they're all focused on building agents and autonomous workflows and like because of that like a lot of the web like the web traffic is changing too right it's like I think becoming less like people browsing sites and agents talking to agents and I think you know with all of that happening the thing that we are seeing is that you know all these agents they need a place to run they need to be secured they need to make sure they have access to the right tools and I think like the existing infrastructure that has been built you know wasn't made for this right it was made for like people using web apps. And so I think the opportunity that we see here is that agents need a whole new model for like compute, storage, and security. And that's some of the things we're hoping to provide and announce during this agents week. Makes perfect sense. In a way, it's also a sign of times. We usually do developers week this time as I was saying. And one of the things I find really interesting is this year 2026, it's definitely a year that there's a different vibe in the beginning of the year, late 2025, early 2026. And of of course this has uh become really relevant not only in the tech industry but outside of the tech industry in the past six months that things have changed so much in terms of what agents can do actual real things and makes perfect sense to call it agents week. Uh it's it's really a chat GPT moment. I would say when chap TPD was launched was whoa this is something different and now we have the same vibes of this is actually something different something is clicking in a different way than it was before in the past few months what can we say in terms of what to expect really in terms of agents week that is coming next week any yeah um I can take that actually like before we even go into what are the major stories or themes you can expect from agent week kind of wanted to comment on something you mentioned earlier which is like you know 2026 has really been like a transformative year and I think one of my favorite stories that kind of came out in the beginning of the year is um you know the craze around openclaw which many of you are probably familiar with or heard about there was just so much excitement around being able to kind of like own your own agent that you have running in your own device doing work for you while you're gone and what I've heard was like so many people were so excited about that that they went out to Apple stores and bought like their own Mac Mini just to be able to kind of run these agents and do work on their behalf. And I think what's really interesting is like we're going to start seeing this if not already of kind of this need and use of longunning agents not just in like a personal context but also like in enterprise environments right and if you can think about it like me in my everyday right like I can see myself using an agent for like you know writing code or like using an agent for like you know supporting customers and so on so forth. every employee may have like one or 10, you know, run agents running concurrently. Now you multiply that across every employee in a given company and now we're seeing hundreds if not thousands of a running at any given time. And so it really goes back to kind of what Ming has said earlier. It's like we're really going to start agents being used and going to be at really large scales and concurrencies that we haven't really seen before. And so um it and I think like with the kind of the stories and themes we're trying to tell this week really ties back to kind of this observation we are making or seeing within the industry, right? And so the first story we have is around how you can build these agents and run these agents on Cloudflare's agentic cloud. And what's really interesting is like while we have these agents running, these agents are probably going to be producing lots of code as well. And so part of that also is how can we run agent generated code in a secure environ isolated environment at scale. And for those of you who are might be somewhat familiar with the workers platform already, you might know about like our workers compute primitive which is just such an excellent kind of technology that's almost made for this moment. So we're going to be telling more stories around that. And then day two or the second story we have also goes back to what Ming has mentioned around you know security is going to be at the forefront of everyone's minds right when you have agents that have access to um your private like resources your databases you know your internal APIs you need a way to monitor and control that usage and make sure you know it's doing what you want it to do. Um and then uh the kind of the third uh major story we have is around how you can build truly intelligent agents, right? Like if you think about capable agents like what does it need access to? It probably needs access to like external services like memory, ability to spin up sub agents, you know, access to models, computer use. And so a lot of times what we see happen is that you know you might be stitching together all of these types and tools from different platforms managing API tokens just to get this agent together. Um but at Cloudflare we really do have all the raw components you need out of the box ready for you to use. And we always put developer experience at the forefront of how we design our products. So you can really expect like a really great um experience of building these agents when you build on Cloudflare. And then the fourth kind of final story we have is that once more agents come online, they're going to be starting to browse the web and consume content in the web. And so are we're going to see a shift of how the internet um is going to be catering to a new type of audience, right? So beyond just like people consuming, but how does a machine consume content as well? And at Cloudflare, we've been thinking about what new affordances can we offer to website owners and agents to cater, you know, be able to better consume content and pay fairly for the content that they consume. There's a lot there. And the way you actually provided like contacts is like the days of the week. So, it's a buildup in terms of of of the week, although we really start really strong uh in as the first day of the week on Monday there. And I'm always surprised first how the and I had many episodes in the past few months actually about many things that will be have development now on agents week may that be even last week I was talking with Michelle Shen about workers AI for example and we'll tell so about markdown for agents like making things a little bit easier for agents to actually do stuff for us. There's a bunch of things in the stack layer and of course we also discussed in the past and more next week all about containers and sandboxes how that's that that's important in terms of security that was not built for the agents era but it actually was really it was not uh we we didn't know that that was coming but it was it's perfect for for this use case. What more can we say without revealing too much of course on uh some of these announcements on some of these topics maybe? Do you have a perspective there? Yeah, I could talk to some of the uh some of the cool things coming up. Um you know, I think like one really one really exciting thing that we've got cooking is, you know, I I think a problem that that now we see with like agents running is like agents they they generate a lot of data, right? Like you imagine coding agents like they're they're uh they're they're they're they're making changes to code. There's like different versions of the code that they're creating. Not and not just coding, right? Anything anytime an agent is generating content like you might want to they're doing a lot of it and they're like doing it very often and you might want to kind of like, you know, kind of go and see like all the all the different versions that that an agent has generated. And so then the problem is like where do you put that data? like how do you store that in a way that's scalable, you know, for uh a product that you where you might have like a thousand agents all like kind of working off of something and generating data. And so we're coming out with something really exciting to try to like solve solve that problem. Thing that I'm like excited about is is like this, you know, kind of looking at like how basically like for model models are kind of like the agent's brain, right? Like you you can't run an agent without without your LLMs. And um I think today though like for real world use cases you often need more than just like one model right you you're often using multiple models together whether that's because different models are differently suited to different use cases or you want to use an expensive model for like planning and then you want to use a cheaper model for execution also like the best model for something changes so quickly right like the best coding model today is you know whatever opus but in three months it could be something completely different and so as a developer right like how do you like how do we make it really easy for developers to kind of like switch out models super quickly work with a lot of different model providers without having to like manage a bunch of different invoices and API keys. Keep keep an eye out for something that will help help with that as well. There's so so much so it will definitely be a a busy week and we'll do a recap episode after the week. I'm also curious being you joined Faulflare coming from Replicate with amazing experience on models and actually building videos actually used replicate for a video that for a teaser about this episode. What has been your experience so far even in terms of going to your first innovation week at Cloudflare? What has been so far? Uh yeah, you know, I I've like kind of, you know, seen like even before I joined Cloudflare, just kind of being around tech, you kind of, you know, you notice these like launches coming out of Cloudflare. But I think, you know, kind of being here and then also having a hand in like making innovation week happen has been such a great experience. I think like I think the thing that I'm probably like most impressed by is like the kinds of like ideas that come out like so like kind of like last minute or like that that like people just like think of and like oh man that'd be really cool like let's go build it. It's just very like bottoms up or or so to speak or like kind of individual driven like someone has a cool idea that they want to ship like they'll just go and do it um and then we'll launch it during an innovation week like this and so I think that's been like the coolest thing to see. Makes sense. and Annie, you've been here for longer, but it's your first week uh innovation week where you're coordinating, right? I'm also curious about an innovation week is something that brings so many teams of fals together. Sometime sometimes it's a team that was not there and then there's an idea and that team will actually provide something. So it's these deadlines are definitely amazing because sometimes we actually build stuff on what was the initial idea. What has been for you so far? Yeah, exactly. So for some background context, I've interned at Coffler twice and then I've been at Coffler for two years full-time now. So definitely seen a lot of the chaos. And what's really interesting is like, you know, us speaking to you today, like we're still hearing announcements being slotted in for next week and it's uh it's going to be coming in hot, but like there's just so much energy that the team has and so much passion and so that's why we we just always see all these like new ideas like bubbling up like all the time. Yeah, deadlines have that way of just creating things from scratch like this idea. Oh, let's add, let's And it's it's quite amazing to see. And the execution now is is crazy. This was great. Anything that we missed that we should say to the audience. No. Uh stay stay excited, tune in. I think it's going to be one of the uh best innovation weeks we have yet. Yeah, for sure. And of course, people should check the blog blog.fare.com with many announcements every day of the week starting on Monday and ending on Friday. And of course we continue even after that but but the innovation week was definitely will be definitely be next week with full of announcements. So stay tuned. Geek out as we usually say here. Thank you Ming. Thank you Annie. Thank you. Thank you so much. And that's a wrap.