Podbay documentation
Learn what Claude can accomplish with a persistent cloud computer and how to stay in control of the work.
Podbay gives Claude a computer of its own: a private cloud workspace with your project, tools, data, and running services. You work from the official Claude desktop or mobile app. The pod keeps the workspace available when the conversation pauses or your laptop closes.
Start with the result you want. Claude handles the machinery inside the pod.
Set up your first pod
Create a workspace, sign Claude in, and continue in the official Claude app.
See what Claude can do
Run a full project, keep services alive, research, automate work, and recover failures.
Give Claude recurring work
Schedule briefs, source checks, reports, and monitors that use the same project context.
Open the result
Ask Claude for a private live link, then share it only when you are ready.
How to think about Podbay
You talk to Claude. Claude works inside the pod. Podbay keeps the computer and its supporting pieces available.
| Your role | Claude's role | Podbay's role |
|---|---|---|
| Describe the result, constraints, and approvals | Build, configure, run, check, and explain | Keep the workspace, session, services, schedules, and access controls working |
You should not need to operate the machine day to day. Ask Claude for an outcome such as:
Get this project running with its database and worker. Verify the main flow and send me a private link when it is ready.
Every weekday morning, check these sources and update the brief. Tell me only when something meaningfully changed.
Ask my documentation pod whether this feature is covered. Bring back its answer, but do not publish anything.
Use the Podbay dashboard when you want to add secrets, change preview access, inspect health and resources, update the pod, or suspend it.
Private alpha
Podbay is evolving quickly. The docs call out important limits and features that depend on a particular environment or deployment. When the live pod differs from a page, ask Claude to check the pod's current capabilities before it acts.
Start with what you want to do
- Create your first workspace: Get started
- Understand the possibilities: What Claude can do in a pod
- Work from desktop or phone: Claude on desktop and mobile
- Run a full application: Services and databases
- Give Claude recurring work: Scheduled work and monitors
- Connect a project account: Secrets and access
- Run Podbay on your own hardware: Self-hosting