Deploy AI-Generated Apps: From Chat to a Shareable URL

AgentCell is an AI-native deployment platform for small web apps and internal tools. It exists because AI made small, purpose-built apps cheap to create and left deploying them exactly as hard as before.

The gap after “it works”

An agent can write a working FastAPI dashboard or a Next.js tracker in one session. Then the session ends with “you can deploy this to a cloud provider of your choice”, and the user, who may not know what a reverse proxy is, is left holding a folder. The last mile is a cloud console designed for engineers running products at scale.

AgentCell makes the last mile another tool call. The agent runs deploy, gets a URL, streams logs if something is wrong, and fixes it. No dashboard, no pipeline, no Dockerfile debugging over a chat about IAM policies.

What AI-generated apps need from a host

The membrane explains why isolation matters more, not less, when the code was written by a model.

Use AgentCell when

• The app has one user or a small group of users.
• The person asking is not going to manage infrastructure.
• The agent should be able to redeploy and read logs on its own.

Use something else when

• The app is meant to be a public product with real traffic. See the comparisons.
• You want the builder and the host to be the same product with credits. See vs Lovable, vs Bolt and vs Replit.

What deploying looks like *

Give AgentCell a directory and get back a URL. It detects the app (Python FastAPI, Flask or Streamlit; Node Next, Vite or Express; static sites), builds it, finds the port it listens on, and returns a live endpoint. Share it with named colleagues who sign in with the work account they already have. Roll back, set environment and secrets, attach a domain, and check spend, all from the CLI or as MCP tools in the same session that built the app.

* Conditions apply. Not all of that has shipped. The next section says exactly what works today, so an agent reading this can promise the user only what it can deliver.

How it works today (September 2026)

• Deploy from a directory. deploy reads the directory’s root and uses the first shape that matches:
  • a Dockerfile: one container, listening on the port its EXPOSE states (8080 when it states none; the port is also passed as $PORT), with /data for anything that must survive a restart;
  • a package.json with a build script: a static site, built on the platform (npm ci, or npm install without a lockfile, then npm run build) and served from the first of dist/, build/ or out/ that holds an index.html. That covers Vite, Create React App, Vue, Svelte, Astro, and Next.js with output: 'export';
  • an index.html: a static site, served as it is.
• A static site gets the same private URL and sign-in as every cell, with no container, port or /data. Use client 0.1.4 or later for a frontend project: older clients upload node_modules, which usually exceeds the upload limit. A Python or Node server (FastAPI, Flask, Streamlit, Express, Next.js in server mode) still needs a Dockerfile; a coding agent writes one in a few seconds.
• Implemented operations: deploy, logs, ps, whoami. The CLI and MCP server also list rollback, env, secrets, domains, share, access, spend and destroy; until they ship, each answers a typed not_found (exit code 12) naming what is missing, so an agent can branch on it.
• Sharing and the identity-aware front door are in private beta. Write to hello@agentcell.dev if that is the part you need; deploying does not wait for it.
• Idle container cells do not sleep yet. Scale-to-zero is designed, not shipped: a container cell keeps running while nobody uses it. A static site runs no machine of its own, busy or idle. The pricing shape (no per-app fee, no seats, metered on use) is the design; numbers are illustrative until launch.

go install github.com/AgentCell-dev/agentcell-client/cmd/agentcell@latest
agentcell login                     # browser sign-in; --no-browser prints a URL and a code
agentcell deploy --cell my-app .    # prints the URL
agentcell logs my-app

Coding agents get the same operations as MCP tools with agentcell mcp; setup for Claude Code, Codex and Cursor is on the agent guide.