Running a coding agent on your laptop works right up until you close the lid. The session ends, the context is gone, and anything long-running stops with it. Podbay gives your agent a real home instead: a persistent cloud workspace that stays exactly as you left it.
What "persistent" actually means
A Podbay pod keeps your `~/work` directory — your repo, your git state, your installed tools, your agent's settings — on a volume that survives restarts, suspends, and even image updates. You start a task, walk away, and come back to it still there. The agent isn't re-onboarding from scratch every time; it picks up where it left off.
On the subscription you already pay for
Podbay runs the agent on **your** AI subscription — you sign in the way you already do, and there's no second metered bill for tokens. It's the same Claude Code you know, just living somewhere that doesn't sleep when your laptop does.
Reach it from anywhere
Because the pod runs in the cloud, you reach it from any browser — the terminal, the live preview of whatever you're building, the whole workspace. You're not tethered to one machine.
Start with a working foundation, not a blank chat
A pod isn't an empty box. Bring an existing GitHub repo and the agent maps the codebase, learns its conventions, and gets the test loop running before it changes anything. Or start from a prepared playbook and inspect, change, and make it yours.
That's the idea: your coding agent, always on, with everything it needs already in place.