AI agents are moving through three stages. They began on the endpoint: Claude Code or Cursor in a terminal on a developer's laptop, a local process with local credentials, and a person watching output scroll past and pressing approve. They are moving into sandboxed cloud containers: cloud agents and background branches, ephemeral environments with repo credentials that are spun up and destroyed inside a single task while the developer files the work and closes the tab.
The Vital Trifecta
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