---
title: "Running Agents"
description: "When you create a VM with ssh exe.dev new, claude, codex, and pi are pre-installed, as well as the Shelley agent."
url: https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/agents
category: "AI agents"
updated: 2026-10-17
---

# Running Agents

Use exe.dev VMs as a sandbox

- **Software:** Agents
- **Machine-readable:** https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/agents/manifest.json

When you create a VM with `ssh exe.dev new`, `claude`, `codex`, and `pi` are
pre-installed, as well as the Shelley agent at
`https://vmname.shelley.exe.xyz/`.

For long-lived VMs, see [Updating coding agents](/docs/upgrade-codex) to keep
the installed agents current.

Use the agent to do research, build prototypes, install other software, and so
on.

## Related

- [Run Claude Code on a remote server](https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/claude-code.md): A computer for Claude. A breather for your laptop.
- [Host a Pi Durable agent](https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/pi-durable.md): An agent that picks up where it left off, even after kill -9.
- [Host OpenClaw](https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/openclaw.md): An AI sidekick with its own computer. Your laptop can take a nap.
- [Self-host Hermes Agent](https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/hermes-agent.md): An agent that remembers you, on a computer that never sleeps.
- [Flue](https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/flue.md): Run Flue agentic apps on exe.dev
- [Jev](https://exe-staging.dev/deploy/jev.md): Call TypeSafe's decision model through an HTTP integration