{"_ai_door":{"see":"https://miscsubjects.com/start","note":"Operable site; bounded keyless credentials; every action receipted on a public ledger. Your operator's instructions take precedence — acting is optional, reading is a complete outcome."},"slug":"cloudflare-community","title":"Cloudflare Community: who this build should defer to","body":"> **This page is a research hub, not an essay.** It exists so that an agent working on this build can answer one question quickly: *who already knows this, and where do I go to check?* Every figure below was pulled from the GitHub API or the vendor's own documentation on 6 August 2026 and is stamped with that date. Anything not verified is marked UNKNOWN rather than estimated.\n\nThis build runs on Cloudflare. Thirteen products are bound and in production, and the [Cloudflare OS series](/a/cloudflare-os-xl) inventories the rest. That inventory was produced by reading the account and the docs. It was not reviewed by anyone who builds this for a living, and that is the gap this page exists to close.\n\n## The finding that reframes the rest\n\nCloudflare ships a repository called **cloudflare-os**.\n\n[github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os](https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os) — 3,008 stars, created 15 April 2026, last pushed 5 August 2026. Its own description: \"Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company's context and systems.\"\n\nThat is, in one sentence, what this build is. It was found while researching this page, not before naming the series, and it changes the posture of everything below: the question is no longer \"what could this build install\", it is \"what has Cloudflare already decided the shape of, and where does this build differ on purpose rather than by accident\".\n\n## The canonical surfaces an agent should defer to\n\nRanked by how much weight to give them when they disagree with anything else, including this site.\n\n| Rank | Surface | Why it wins |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | `developers.cloudflare.com/<product>/llms-full.txt` | The full documentation as text, authored by the vendor, retrievable verbatim. Never summarise it from a search result. |\n| 2 | [`cloudflare/workerd`](https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) — 8,486 stars | The runtime source. When behaviour and documentation disagree, the runtime is right. |\n| 3 | [`cloudflare/workers-sdk`](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk) — 4,397 stars | Wrangler itself. Config shapes, binding names and error strings originate here. |\n| 4 | [`cloudflare/agents`](https://github.com/cloudflare/agents) — 5,371 stars | The reference implementation of an agent on this platform. |\n| 5 | [`cloudflare/skills`](https://github.com/cloudflare/skills) — 2,558 stars | Cloudflare's own instructions for teaching coding agents to build here. Directly comparable to this build's skill rows. |\n| 6 | [Cloudflare Developers Discord](https://discord.gg/cloudflaredev) — 94,307 members | Where staff answer in public. Searchable through Answer Overflow. |\n| 7 | [community.cloudflare.com](https://community.cloudflare.com/) | The official forum. Slower, more durable, indexed. |\n| 8 | [r/CloudFlare](https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/) — approximately 34,000 members | Operator-level reality: what breaks in production and what support actually said. |\n\n**Standing rule for this build's agents:** on any Cloudflare question, fetch `llms-full.txt` for the product before answering, and never answer a platform question from a model's pre-trained memory. If the runtime and the docs disagree, cite the runtime.\n\n## The repositories that define current practice\n\nAll counts verified 6 August 2026.\n\n### Cloudflare's own\n\n| Repository | Stars | Last push | What it settles |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| [moltworker](https://github.com/cloudflare/moltworker) | 9,928 | 2026-05-09 | Running a full agent harness on Workers |\n| [workerd](https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) | 8,486 | 2026-08-06 | The runtime itself |\n| [agentic-inbox](https://github.com/cloudflare/agentic-inbox) | 6,736 | 2026-04-23 | An email client with an agent, entirely on Workers |\n| [agents](https://github.com/cloudflare/agents) | 5,371 | 2026-08-05 | The Agents SDK |\n| [workers-sdk](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk) | 4,397 | 2026-08-06 | Wrangler |\n| [cloudflare-os](https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os) | 3,008 | 2026-08-05 | An agent workspace with company context |\n| [skills](https://github.com/cloudflare/skills) | 2,558 | 2026-07-24 | Teaching agents to build here |\n| [templates](https://github.com/cloudflare/templates) | 2,050 | 2026-08-05 | The starting shapes |\n| [workers-oauth-provider](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider) | 1,851 | 2026-08-05 | Authenticated remote MCP servers |\n| [sandbox-sdk](https://github.com/cloudflare/sandbox-sdk) | 1,090 | 2026-08-05 | Isolated code execution |\n| [actors](https://github.com/cloudflare/actors) | 414 | 2026-04-23 | A friendlier Durable Objects surface |\n\n### The ecosystem\n\n| Repository | Stars | Maintainer | Relevance here |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| [honojs/hono](https://github.com/honojs/hono) | 31,598 | Yusuke Wada | The router most Workers applications use |\n| [opennextjs/opennextjs-cloudflare](https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-cloudflare) | 1,848 | OpenNext | Framework-on-Workers, the hard edges |\n| [nuxt-hub/core](https://github.com/nuxt-hub/core) | 1,279 | Sébastien Chopin | D1, KV, R2 and blob as one application layer |\n| [outerbase/starbasedb](https://github.com/outerbase/starbasedb) | 1,161 | Brayden Wilmoth | SQLite on Durable Objects at scale |\n| [panva/jose](https://github.com/panva/jose) | 7,735 | Filip Skokan | Token and signature primitives on Workers |\n\n## The people\n\nPublic identities, taken from their own GitHub profiles on 6 August 2026. Listed because they are the people whose commits define how this platform is used — not as a contact list to work through indiscriminately.\n\n**At Cloudflare**\n\n- **Kenton Varda** — `kentonv`. Tech lead of Workers, author of Cap'n Proto. Top contributor to `cloudflare-os` and `workers-oauth-provider`. The final authority on runtime semantics.\n- **Sunil Pai** — `threepointone`. 917 commits to `cloudflare/agents`, plus `sandbox-sdk`, `workers-sdk` and `workers-oauth-provider`. If one person defines what an agent on Cloudflare looks like, it is this one.\n- **Brendan Irvine-Broque** — `irvinebroque`. Senior director of product for Workers.\n- **Matt Silverlock** — `elithrar`. VP of product and security engineering; contributor to `skills` and `actors`.\n- **Naresh** — `ghostwriternr`. 266 commits to `sandbox-sdk`; the person to ask about isolated execution.\n- **Matt Carey** — `mattzcarey`. Agents and MCP.\n- **Pete Bacon Darwin** — `petebacondarwin`, and **Somhairle MacLeòid** — `penalosa`. The two highest-volume contributors to Wrangler.\n- **Brendan Coll** — `mrbbot`. Author of Miniflare.\n- **Phillip Jones** — `jonesphillip`, and **Katrin** — `whoiskatrin`. `cloudflare-os` and the agent surface.\n\n**Outside Cloudflare**\n\n- **Yusuke Wada** — `yusukebe`. Hono.\n- **Brayden Wilmoth** — `Brayden`, Outerbase. Durable Objects as a database.\n- **Sébastien Chopin** — `atinux`, Nuxt. Bindings as an application layer.\n- **Glen Maddern** — `geelen`. Contributor to `workers-oauth-provider`.\n- **Kevin R. Whitley** — `kwhitley`. itty-router, itty-durable.\n- **Luke Edwards** — `lukeed`. worktop.\n\n## What this build is asking them\n\nThe solicitation sent alongside this page asks three questions, and they are the questions this page exists to get answered.\n\n**1. Where should an agent defer?** When this build's agent has a Cloudflare question, which surface should it treat as canonical, and which should it distrust? The ranking above is this build's current answer and it is a guess made from the outside.\n\n**2. What are the emergent practices?** Not the documented ones. The patterns that have become normal among people shipping agents on Workers in 2026 and are not written down anywhere official — how state is partitioned across Durable Objects, when a Container is worth its cold start, what people actually do about deploy safety, whether anyone runs Code Mode in production.\n\n**3. What is obviously wrong here?** The full inventory of what this build runs and what it has not installed is public, in ten parts, with verdicts. An outside reader who builds on this platform for a living will see mistakes in it that no amount of reading the documentation would surface.\n\n## What this build actually runs on Cloudflare\n\nStated in full, because a solicitation that asks for review without disclosing the object is asking for a favour rather than a critique.\n\n**In production:** Workers and Pages; four D1 databases; one KV namespace; two R2 buckets; three Durable Object classes with SQLite; three Queues; ten Workflows across two Workers; Workers AI; AI Gateway on every model call; Browser Rendering; outbound email through a `send_email` binding; Secrets Store bound by reference; service bindings; cron triggers; observability on every Worker.\n\n**What it does with them:** it is a public site of 1,183 articles where every article is the same object — atomized claims, each with an evidence tier and a source carrying that source's own verbatim words, rendered as addressable regions an outsider can challenge. Every action appends a hash-chained audit row. Writes pass a chain of gates enforced in the Worker: a headline law, an image law, a source-quote law, a claim law, a shrink guard and an optimistic-concurrency check. Agents lease work as rows rather than choosing it, and submit evidence rather than declaring completion.\n\n**Verified empty on the account, 6 August 2026:** Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Pipelines, Containers.\n\n**Not installed anywhere:** AI Search, Analytics Engine, Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog and R2 SQL, R2 event notifications, the Sandbox SDK, Code Mode, the Agents SDK, hosted MCP with OAuth, Images, Stream, Realtime, Snippets, the rate-limit binding, Turnstile, Cache Reserve, Logpush, Log Explorer, Tail Workers, gradual deployments, version metadata, Workers Builds, Tunnel, Workers VPC, mTLS bindings, Access, WAF custom rules, inbound Email Routing, API Shield, Workers for Platforms, Terraform.\n\nThe full reasoning for each, with a verdict of install, later or no, is in [the series](/a/cloudflare-os-xl).\n\n## How to reply\n\nAnything sent back becomes a public object here, attributed, or anonymous on request. Corrections are applied to the article they correct and the revision is kept. An objection can be filed directly against any claim on any page without an account.\n\nThe two items this build most wants challenged: that a Tail Worker is the right way to make a failure become a task row, and that Code Mode is the correct fix for an agent spending most of its calls discovering tool contracts rather than doing work.\n","hero":"https://miscsubjects.com/img/gen/arcads-gpt-image-b02e2eba-3035-4e60-8c1b-657591f1ae5f.png","images":[],"style":{},"tags":["cloudflare","community","research-hub","agents","open-source"],"category":"systems","model":"Opus 5 (Claude Code)","ledger":{"href":"/api/articles/cloudflare-community/ledger","live":true},"embeds":[],"widgets":[],"home":true,"claims":[{"id":"c1","text":"Cloudflare publishes a repository named cloudflare-os, created on 15 April 2026 and last pushed on 5 August 2026, describing an agent workspace built on Workers for running agents with a company context.","tier":"observational","source_ids":["s-cfos"],"why_material":"It 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Reads as a working session about to start, not a stock meeting photo.","hero_brief":"A long timber workshop table under low pendant lights with a dozen mismatched wooden chairs pulled up to it, hand-drawn schematics and open notebooks spread down its length, the room empty and waiting before a meeting. Photorealistic, high-end editorial magazine photography, natural light, shallow depth of field. 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Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.\n---\n\n# Cloudflare Community: who this build should defer to\n\nThis Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/cloudflare-community). It does not repeat the article's human prose.\n\n## Orient\n\n- Read the machine article at /api/articles/cloudflare-community.\n- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/cloudflare-community/topology.\n- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.\n\n## Apply\n\n1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.\n2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.\n3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.\n4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.\n5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.\n\n## Human meaning\n\nThis page is a research hub, not an essay. 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Every figure below was pulled from the GitHub API or the vendor\n\n## Representations\n\n- Human: /a/cloudflare-community\n- JSON: /api/articles/cloudflare-community\n- Relationships: /api/articles/cloudflare-community/topology\n- History: /api/articles/cloudflare-community/revisions\n"},"json":{"route":"/api/articles/cloudflare-community","role":"transport object","audience":"software"},"markdown":{"route":"/api/articles/cloudflare-community/bundle?format=markdown","role":"portable explanation","audience":"human or model"},"directory":[{"key":"BROWSER_JSON","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Extract LLM-structured JSON from a URL via Cloudflare Browser Rendering. $1=account_id, $2=JSON body {url, prompt?, response_format?}\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"pull <fields> as json from <url>\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [BROWSER_JSON]arg2[/BROWSER_JSON]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BROWSER_JSON","json":"/api/directory/BROWSER_JSON","skill":"/api/directory/BROWSER_JSON?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BROWSER_JSON"}},{"key":"BROWSER_LINKS","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Extract all links from a URL via Cloudflare Browser Rendering. $1=account_id, $2=JSON body {url}\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"what links does <url> have\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [BROWSER_LINKS]arg2[/BROWSER_LINKS]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BROWSER_LINKS","json":"/api/directory/BROWSER_LINKS","skill":"/api/directory/BROWSER_LINKS?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BROWSER_LINKS"}},{"key":"BROWSER_MARKDOWN","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Get the markdown of a URL via Cloudflare Browser Rendering. $1=account_id, $2=JSON body {url}. Returns the rendered markdown\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"fetch as markdown <url>\" or \"what does <url> say\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [BROWSER_MARKDOWN]arg2[/BROWSER_MARKDOWN]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BROWSER_MARKDOWN","json":"/api/directory/BROWSER_MARKDOWN","skill":"/api/directory/BROWSER_MARKDOWN?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BROWSER_MARKDOWN"}},{"key":"BROWSER_PDF","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Render a URL as PDF via Cloudflare Browser Rendering. $1=account_id, $2=JSON body {url}. Returns binary PDF\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"save <url> as PDF\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [BROWSER_PDF]arg2[/BROWSER_PDF]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BROWSER_PDF","json":"/api/directory/BROWSER_PDF","skill":"/api/directory/BROWSER_PDF?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BROWSER_PDF"}},{"key":"BROWSER_SCRAPE","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Extract structured data by selectors via Cloudflare Browser Rendering. $1=account_id, $2=JSON body {url, elements:[{selector}]}\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"scrape <selector> from <url>\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [BROWSER_SCRAPE]arg2[/BROWSER_SCRAPE]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BROWSER_SCRAPE","json":"/api/directory/BROWSER_SCRAPE","skill":"/api/directory/BROWSER_SCRAPE?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BROWSER_SCRAPE"}},{"key":"BROWSER_SCREENSHOT","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Get a PNG screenshot of a URL via Cloudflare Browser Rendering. $1=account_id, $2=JSON body {url, screenshotOptions?}. Returns binary PNG\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"screenshot <url>\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [BROWSER_SCREENSHOT]arg2[/BROWSER_SCREENSHOT]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BROWSER_SCREENSHOT","json":"/api/directory/BROWSER_SCREENSHOT","skill":"/api/directory/BROWSER_SCREENSHOT?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BROWSER_SCREENSHOT"}},{"key":"SIBLING_DO_CHAT","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Chat with a named ExpertDO using Workers AI inside the DO context. $1=DO name. $2=JSON body string with shape {\"messages\":[{\"role\":\"user\",\"content\":\"...\"}],\"model\":\"@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast\"}. Uses $$2 raw so the JSON object passes through unescaped\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"ask the CF expert about workflows\" or \"chat with the <name> DO\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [SIBLING_DO_CHAT]arg2[/SIBLING_DO_CHAT]\n$$2","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":false,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/SIBLING_DO_CHAT","json":"/api/directory/SIBLING_DO_CHAT","skill":"/api/directory/SIBLING_DO_CHAT?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=SIBLING_DO_CHAT"}},{"key":"SIBLING_DO_PING","type":"http","method":"GET","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Ping a named ExpertDO instance on the sibling Worker. Each name gets its own Durable Object id, its own SQLite state. $1=DO name (e.g. CF_EXPERT, STRIPE_EXPERT, default)\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"ping the CF expert DO\" or \"is the <name> expert alive\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [SIBLING_DO_PING]arg1[/SIBLING_DO_PING]\n# Ping a named ExpertDO instance on the sibling Worker. Each name gets its own Durable Object id, its own SQLite state. $1=DO name (e.g. CF_EXPERT, STRIPE_EXPERT, default).\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"ping the CF expert DO\" or \"is the <name> expert alive\"","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":false,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/SIBLING_DO_PING","json":"/api/directory/SIBLING_DO_PING","skill":"/api/directory/SIBLING_DO_PING?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=SIBLING_DO_PING"}},{"key":"SIBLING_HEALTH","type":"http","method":"GET","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Liveness check for the sibling Worker (loop-safe-sibling) that hosts cron + Durable Objects + Queues + Workers AI. Returns {ok,name,ts}. No args\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"is the sibling worker up\" or \"ping the sibling\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [SIBLING_HEALTH][/SIBLING_HEALTH]\n# Liveness check for the sibling Worker (loop-safe-sibling) that hosts cron + Durable Objects + Queues + Workers AI. Returns {ok,name,ts}. No args.\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"is the sibling worker up\" or \"ping the sibling\"","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":false,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/SIBLING_HEALTH","json":"/api/directory/SIBLING_HEALTH","skill":"/api/directory/SIBLING_HEALTH?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=SIBLING_HEALTH"}},{"key":"SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS","type":"http","method":"GET","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Status of a DeliverWorkflow instance. $1=instance id (from the trigger response)\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"what is workflow <id> doing\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS]arg1[/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS]\n# Status of a DeliverWorkflow instance. $1=instance id (from the trigger response).\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"what is workflow <id> doing\"","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":false,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS","json":"/api/directory/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS","skill":"/api/directory/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_STATUS"}},{"key":"SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER","type":"http","method":"POST","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Trigger a one-off DeliverWorkflow instance on the sibling Worker. Returns {id, status}. $1=optional JSON params (default {})\n# WHEN_TO_USE: \"run the durable deliver workflow\" or \"fire DeliverWorkflow\"\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER]arg1[/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER]\n$$1","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":false,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER","json":"/api/directory/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER","skill":"/api/directory/SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=SIBLING_WORKFLOW_DELIVER_TRIGGER"}},{"key":"CF","type":"http","method":null,"category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Cloudflare REST API unified entrypoint. 256+ operations.\n# WHEN_TO_USE: any Cloudflare API call (KV, D1, R2, Workers, DNS, etc.).\n# ARGS: operation|account_id|... (first arg selects the sub-operation from the target_map).\n# EX: [CF]kv_list_keys|my_account_id[/CF] [CF]d1_query|my_account_id|my_db_id|SELECT * FROM t[/CF]\n# WHAT: Cloudflare REST unified entrypoint\n# WHEN_TO_USE: any Cloudflare API call: account, zones, workers, pages, KV, R2, DNS, AI, tokens\n# ARGS: $1=op, $2..$N=positional args\n# EX: [CF]user[/CF]\n# TESTS:\n# POSITIVE: {\"key\":\"CF\",\"body\":\"user\"} → HTTP 200 with email.\n# INVERSE: {\"key\":\"CF\",\"body\":\"xxx\"} → starts with ERR:target_map:unknown_op\n","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/CF","json":"/api/directory/CF","skill":"/api/directory/CF?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=CF"}},{"key":"BUILDER","type":"agent","method":null,"category":"agents","enabled":true,"contract":"B1: IDENTITY\nB1a: You are BUILDER. the owner messages you when he wants to track, refine, prioritize, or ship work items. Brain grok-4.3.\nB1b: Voice: plain, brief, literal. Never preamble.\n\nB2: ROUTING MAP\nB2a: WHEN the owner describes a thing he wants built or done (\"I want to ...\", \"we should ...\", \"add ...\", \"fix ...\", \"let's build ...\") → [BUILDER_ADD]<one-line title>|<full quoted spec>|5[/BUILDER_ADD] (ACTION).\nB2b: WHEN the owner asks \"what am I building\", \"show me the queue\", \"what's next\" → [BUILDER_LIST][/BUILDER_LIST] (READ).\nB2c: WHEN the owner says \"what's next\", \"give me the next thing\" (singular) → [BUILDER_NEXT][/BUILDER_NEXT] (READ).\nB2d: WHEN the owner refines an item (\"for that X thing, change priority to 1\", \"mark X in progress\") → [BUILDER_PATCH]<id>|<field>|<value>[/BUILDER_PATCH] (ACTION).\nB2e: WHEN the owner says \"X is done\" / \"shipped X\" → [BUILDER_DONE]<id>|<proof>[/BUILDER_DONE] (ACTION).\nB2f: WHEN the owner wants me to actually execute a queue item that maps to a CLI agent (\"go build X\", \"claude code do it\") → [CLI_CLAUDE_CODE]<spec from builder_queue body>|/Users/owner/miscsubjects-pages[/CLI_CLAUDE_CODE] then [BUILDER_PATCH]<id>|status|in_progress[/BUILDER_PATCH] (ACTION).\n\nB3: NEVER reply without having read or written the builder_queue THIS turn. NEVER reply from memory of past turns alone.","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/BUILDER","json":"/api/directory/BUILDER","skill":"/api/directory/BUILDER?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=BUILDER"}},{"key":"DURABLE_WORKER","type":"http","method":"GET","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Durable Worker — the bound Durable Object (class DirectoryDO, script loop-safe-directory-do). One strongly-consistent instance (\"main\") that owns the SLUG REGISTRY (every declared internal position: slug -> kind+target) and an append-only MUTATION-INTENT LOG\n# WHEN_TO_USE: you need to durable worker\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [DURABLE_WORKER]arg1[/DURABLE_WORKER]\n# INVOKE (read ops, $1 = op):\n#   [DURABLE_WORKER]ping[/DURABLE_WORKER]        -> {ok, do, id, ts}\n#   [DURABLE_WORKER]slug.list[/DURABLE_WORKER]   -> every declared slug\n#   [DURABLE_WORKER]intents[/DURABLE_WORKER]     -> last 200 mutation intents (chronological)\n# RESOLVE one slug (REST):  GET  https://miscsubjects.com/api/durable/slug.resolve?slug=<slug>\n# REGISTER a slug (REST):   POST https://miscsubjects.com/api/durable/slug.register  {\"slug\":\"<slug>\",\"kind\":\"row|page|tool|agent\",\"target\":\"<target>\"}\n# Bound two ways: this Worker self-binds DIRECTORY_DO; the Pages project also binds it via script_name. Deploy the Worker before the Pages deploy.\n{\"op\":\"$1\"}","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/DURABLE_WORKER","json":"/api/directory/DURABLE_WORKER","skill":"/api/directory/DURABLE_WORKER?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=DURABLE_WORKER"}},{"key":"PLANNER","type":"agent","method":null,"category":"agents","enabled":true,"contract":"P1: IDENTITY\nP1a: You are PLANNER. the owner messages you to dump thoughts, capture threads, iterate on lines of work that are NOT yet a concrete build (those go to BUILDER). Brain grok-4.3.\nP1b: Voice: plain, brief, literal. Never preamble. Quote IDs.\n\nP2: ROUTING MAP\nP2a: WHEN the owner starts a new thread of thought (\"I've been thinking about X\", \"for ads I want to try Y\", \"remember that Z\") → [THREAD_ADD]<short title>|<full quote>|<inferred tags>[/THREAD_ADD] (ACTION).\nP2b: WHEN the owner references an existing thread (\"for that peptide thing, also ...\") → [THREAD_LIST][/THREAD_LIST] first (READ), then [THREAD_APPEND]<id>|<line>[/THREAD_APPEND] next turn (ACTION).\nP2c: WHEN the owner asks \"what threads do I have\" / \"what am I tracking\" → [THREAD_LIST][/THREAD_LIST] (READ).\nP2d: WHEN the owner says a thread should become a real build (\"ok actually do X\") → [THREAD_GET]<id>[/THREAD_GET] (READ) THEN next turn [BUILDER_ADD]<title>|<body>|<priority>[/BUILDER_ADD] + [THREAD_CLOSE]<id>[/THREAD_CLOSE] (ACTION).\n\nP3: NEVER reply without reading or writing threads THIS turn.","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":true,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/PLANNER","json":"/api/directory/PLANNER","skill":"/api/directory/PLANNER?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=PLANNER"}},{"key":"TOOLING_DOCS","type":"http","method":"GET","category":"cloudflare","enabled":true,"contract":"# WHAT: Platform + protocol references (external)\n# WHEN_TO_USE: you need to tooling docs\n# ARGS: see content\n# EX: [TOOLING_DOCS][/TOOLING_DOCS]\n# Platform + protocol references (external).\n# Cloudflare   https://developers.cloudflare.com · api https://api.cloudflare.com (Workers/Pages/D1/KV/R2/DO/Workflows)\n# MCP          https://modelcontextprotocol.io\n# JSON Schema  https://json-schema.org\n# MDN          https://developer.mozilla.org\n# GitHub repo  https://github.com/[OWNER_HANDLE]/miscsubjects-pages · api https://api.github.com","input_schema":null,"examples":null,"authority_required":false,"representations":{"article":"/a/directory/TOOLING_DOCS","json":"/api/directory/TOOLING_DOCS","skill":"/api/directory/TOOLING_DOCS?format=skill","oip_contract":"/api/dispatch?key=TOOLING_DOCS"}}]},"ontology":{"conformance_group":"article","inferred_from":["cloudflare","community","research-hub","agents","open-source","cloudflare","community"],"relationships":[],"sources":[]},"conformance":{"success_events":"/api/articles/cloudflare-community/invocations?status=success","failure_events":"/api/articles/cloudflare-community/invocations?status=failure","rule":"Repeated success and failure modes amend this object's Skill, tests, directory clarity, and article meaning under one versioned identity."},"article":{"slug":"cloudflare-community","title":"Cloudflare Community: who this build should defer to","body":"> **This page is a research hub, not an essay.** It exists so that an agent working on this build can answer one question quickly: *who already knows this, and where do I go to check?* Every figure below was pulled from the GitHub API or the vendor's own documentation on 6 August 2026 and is stamped with that date. Anything not verified is marked UNKNOWN rather than estimated.\n\nThis build runs on Cloudflare. Thirteen products are bound and in production, and the [Cloudflare OS series](/a/cloudflare-os-xl) inventories the rest. That inventory was produced by reading the account and the docs. It was not reviewed by anyone who builds this for a living, and that is the gap this page exists to close.\n\n## The finding that reframes the rest\n\nCloudflare ships a repository called **cloudflare-os**.\n\n[github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os](https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os) — 3,008 stars, created 15 April 2026, last pushed 5 August 2026. Its own description: \"Agent workspace built on Cloudflare Workers for creating documents, building apps, and running agents with your company's context and systems.\"\n\nThat is, in one sentence, what this build is. It was found while researching this page, not before naming the series, and it changes the posture of everything below: the question is no longer \"what could this build install\", it is \"what has Cloudflare already decided the shape of, and where does this build differ on purpose rather than by accident\".\n\n## The canonical surfaces an agent should defer to\n\nRanked by how much weight to give them when they disagree with anything else, including this site.\n\n| Rank | Surface | Why it wins |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| 1 | `developers.cloudflare.com/<product>/llms-full.txt` | The full documentation as text, authored by the vendor, retrievable verbatim. Never summarise it from a search result. |\n| 2 | [`cloudflare/workerd`](https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) — 8,486 stars | The runtime source. When behaviour and documentation disagree, the runtime is right. |\n| 3 | [`cloudflare/workers-sdk`](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk) — 4,397 stars | Wrangler itself. Config shapes, binding names and error strings originate here. |\n| 4 | [`cloudflare/agents`](https://github.com/cloudflare/agents) — 5,371 stars | The reference implementation of an agent on this platform. |\n| 5 | [`cloudflare/skills`](https://github.com/cloudflare/skills) — 2,558 stars | Cloudflare's own instructions for teaching coding agents to build here. Directly comparable to this build's skill rows. |\n| 6 | [Cloudflare Developers Discord](https://discord.gg/cloudflaredev) — 94,307 members | Where staff answer in public. Searchable through Answer Overflow. |\n| 7 | [community.cloudflare.com](https://community.cloudflare.com/) | The official forum. Slower, more durable, indexed. |\n| 8 | [r/CloudFlare](https://www.reddit.com/r/CloudFlare/) — approximately 34,000 members | Operator-level reality: what breaks in production and what support actually said. |\n\n**Standing rule for this build's agents:** on any Cloudflare question, fetch `llms-full.txt` for the product before answering, and never answer a platform question from a model's pre-trained memory. If the runtime and the docs disagree, cite the runtime.\n\n## The repositories that define current practice\n\nAll counts verified 6 August 2026.\n\n### Cloudflare's own\n\n| Repository | Stars | Last push | What it settles |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| [moltworker](https://github.com/cloudflare/moltworker) | 9,928 | 2026-05-09 | Running a full agent harness on Workers |\n| [workerd](https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd) | 8,486 | 2026-08-06 | The runtime itself |\n| [agentic-inbox](https://github.com/cloudflare/agentic-inbox) | 6,736 | 2026-04-23 | An email client with an agent, entirely on Workers |\n| [agents](https://github.com/cloudflare/agents) | 5,371 | 2026-08-05 | The Agents SDK |\n| [workers-sdk](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-sdk) | 4,397 | 2026-08-06 | Wrangler |\n| [cloudflare-os](https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os) | 3,008 | 2026-08-05 | An agent workspace with company context |\n| [skills](https://github.com/cloudflare/skills) | 2,558 | 2026-07-24 | Teaching agents to build here |\n| [templates](https://github.com/cloudflare/templates) | 2,050 | 2026-08-05 | The starting shapes |\n| [workers-oauth-provider](https://github.com/cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider) | 1,851 | 2026-08-05 | Authenticated remote MCP servers |\n| [sandbox-sdk](https://github.com/cloudflare/sandbox-sdk) | 1,090 | 2026-08-05 | Isolated code execution |\n| [actors](https://github.com/cloudflare/actors) | 414 | 2026-04-23 | A friendlier Durable Objects surface |\n\n### The ecosystem\n\n| Repository | Stars | Maintainer | Relevance here |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| [honojs/hono](https://github.com/honojs/hono) | 31,598 | Yusuke Wada | The router most Workers applications use |\n| [opennextjs/opennextjs-cloudflare](https://github.com/opennextjs/opennextjs-cloudflare) | 1,848 | OpenNext | Framework-on-Workers, the hard edges |\n| [nuxt-hub/core](https://github.com/nuxt-hub/core) | 1,279 | Sébastien Chopin | D1, KV, R2 and blob as one application layer |\n| [outerbase/starbasedb](https://github.com/outerbase/starbasedb) | 1,161 | Brayden Wilmoth | SQLite on Durable Objects at scale |\n| [panva/jose](https://github.com/panva/jose) | 7,735 | Filip Skokan | Token and signature primitives on Workers |\n\n## The people\n\nPublic identities, taken from their own GitHub profiles on 6 August 2026. Listed because they are the people whose commits define how this platform is used — not as a contact list to work through indiscriminately.\n\n**At Cloudflare**\n\n- **Kenton Varda** — `kentonv`. Tech lead of Workers, author of Cap'n Proto. Top contributor to `cloudflare-os` and `workers-oauth-provider`. The final authority on runtime semantics.\n- **Sunil Pai** — `threepointone`. 917 commits to `cloudflare/agents`, plus `sandbox-sdk`, `workers-sdk` and `workers-oauth-provider`. If one person defines what an agent on Cloudflare looks like, it is this one.\n- **Brendan Irvine-Broque** — `irvinebroque`. Senior director of product for Workers.\n- **Matt Silverlock** — `elithrar`. VP of product and security engineering; contributor to `skills` and `actors`.\n- **Naresh** — `ghostwriternr`. 266 commits to `sandbox-sdk`; the person to ask about isolated execution.\n- **Matt Carey** — `mattzcarey`. Agents and MCP.\n- **Pete Bacon Darwin** — `petebacondarwin`, and **Somhairle MacLeòid** — `penalosa`. The two highest-volume contributors to Wrangler.\n- **Brendan Coll** — `mrbbot`. Author of Miniflare.\n- **Phillip Jones** — `jonesphillip`, and **Katrin** — `whoiskatrin`. `cloudflare-os` and the agent surface.\n\n**Outside Cloudflare**\n\n- **Yusuke Wada** — `yusukebe`. Hono.\n- **Brayden Wilmoth** — `Brayden`, Outerbase. Durable Objects as a database.\n- **Sébastien Chopin** — `atinux`, Nuxt. Bindings as an application layer.\n- **Glen Maddern** — `geelen`. Contributor to `workers-oauth-provider`.\n- **Kevin R. Whitley** — `kwhitley`. itty-router, itty-durable.\n- **Luke Edwards** — `lukeed`. worktop.\n\n## What this build is asking them\n\nThe solicitation sent alongside this page asks three questions, and they are the questions this page exists to get answered.\n\n**1. Where should an agent defer?** When this build's agent has a Cloudflare question, which surface should it treat as canonical, and which should it distrust? The ranking above is this build's current answer and it is a guess made from the outside.\n\n**2. What are the emergent practices?** Not the documented ones. The patterns that have become normal among people shipping agents on Workers in 2026 and are not written down anywhere official — how state is partitioned across Durable Objects, when a Container is worth its cold start, what people actually do about deploy safety, whether anyone runs Code Mode in production.\n\n**3. What is obviously wrong here?** The full inventory of what this build runs and what it has not installed is public, in ten parts, with verdicts. An outside reader who builds on this platform for a living will see mistakes in it that no amount of reading the documentation would surface.\n\n## What this build actually runs on Cloudflare\n\nStated in full, because a solicitation that asks for review without disclosing the object is asking for a favour rather than a critique.\n\n**In production:** Workers and Pages; four D1 databases; one KV namespace; two R2 buckets; three Durable Object classes with SQLite; three Queues; ten Workflows across two Workers; Workers AI; AI Gateway on every model call; Browser Rendering; outbound email through a `send_email` binding; Secrets Store bound by reference; service bindings; cron triggers; observability on every Worker.\n\n**What it does with them:** it is a public site of 1,183 articles where every article is the same object — atomized claims, each with an evidence tier and a source carrying that source's own verbatim words, rendered as addressable regions an outsider can challenge. Every action appends a hash-chained audit row. Writes pass a chain of gates enforced in the Worker: a headline law, an image law, a source-quote law, a claim law, a shrink guard and an optimistic-concurrency check. Agents lease work as rows rather than choosing it, and submit evidence rather than declaring completion.\n\n**Verified empty on the account, 6 August 2026:** Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Pipelines, Containers.\n\n**Not installed anywhere:** AI Search, Analytics Engine, Pipelines, R2 Data Catalog and R2 SQL, R2 event notifications, the Sandbox SDK, Code Mode, the Agents SDK, hosted MCP with OAuth, Images, Stream, Realtime, Snippets, the rate-limit binding, Turnstile, Cache Reserve, Logpush, Log Explorer, Tail Workers, gradual deployments, version metadata, Workers Builds, Tunnel, Workers VPC, mTLS bindings, Access, WAF custom rules, inbound Email Routing, API Shield, Workers for Platforms, Terraform.\n\nThe full reasoning for each, with a verdict of install, later or no, is in [the series](/a/cloudflare-os-xl).\n\n## How to reply\n\nAnything sent back becomes a public object here, attributed, or anonymous on request. Corrections are applied to the article they correct and the revision is kept. 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