Cloudflare Agents Week Preview: What to Expect

Hello everyone and welcome to This Week In Net, is the April the 10th 2026 edition. This is a short edition only for Agents Week. This is an Agents Week teaser. I'm your host João Tomé and today I'm actually in the middle of the Atlantic, in the island of Madeira. Actually not in the middle of the Atlantic, more close to Africa. And with me I have Ming Lu and Anni Wang. Hello. How are you? Hello. Hi. Before we go into details, can you explain to us where are you based? Hi everyone. I'm Ming. I am based out of our San Francisco. And you Anni? Hi everyone. My name is Anni. I'm based out of the New York office. Our we get this lovely view of the entire city. I'm not there right now, but it's also a really awesome place to be. It is. It is. Actually Val from our social team was just there in New York in the office taking amazing photos. So the views are really astonishing and amazing. To be honest, I'm not too bad. I'm in Madeira Island and you can actually see a bit of Madeira Island here and the ocean. Oh well, not too much, but you get the drift. Agents Week, it's Cloufleur's first Agents Week. And of course, Cloufleur does this thing we call Innovation Weeks. Almost since from the start, although at the start it wasn't called Innovation Week, after a few years of company, it became a real thing, Innovation Weeks, with the more important one usually called Birthday Week in September, when Cloufleur does its birthday. But Agents Week is the first one we do of these Innovation Weeks full of deadlines, full of things we want to announce and share. What can we say about Agents Week? What is Agents Week and why are we doing a first one? Because usually at this time of the year, usually we do Developers Week, but not this year. Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Yeah. I mean, I think it's just so topical and timely now, right? Everyone is talking about agents, everyone is building agents. And so, I think for this Innovation Week, really want to show the world why Cloufleur is the best place to build, deploy and secure agents. I think clearly the world is going through a change, largely driven by things like agentic coding. I think because of agentic coding, agents or AI are generating an order of magnitude more code than developers. People, instead of building normal web apps, they're all focused on building agents and autonomous workflows. And because of that, a lot of the web traffic is changing too. It's like, I think, becoming less like people browsing sites and agents talking to agents. And I think with all of that happening, the thing that we are seeing is that all these agents, they need a place to run, they need to be secured, they need to make sure they have access to the right tools. And I think the existing infrastructure that has been built wasn't made for this. It was made for people using web apps. And so, I think the opportunity that we see here is that agents need a whole new model for compute, storage and security. And that's some of the things we're hoping to provide and announce during this Agents Week. Makes perfect sense. In a way, it's also a sign of times. We usually do Developers Week this time, as I was saying. And one of the things I find really interesting is this year, 2026, it's definitely a year that there's a different vibe in the beginning of the year, late 2025, early 2026. And of course, this has become really relevant, not only in the tech industry, but outside of the tech industry. In the past six months, things have changed so much in terms of what agents can do, actual real things. And makes perfect sense to call it Agents Week. It's really a ChatGPT moment, I would say. When ChatGPT was launched, it was, whoa, this is something different. And now we have the same vibes of, this is actually something different. Something is clicking in a different way than it was before in the past few months. What can we say in terms of what to expect, really, in terms of Agents Week that is coming next week? Annie? Yeah, I can take that. Actually, before we even go into what are the major stories or themes you can expect from Agents Week, I wanted to comment on something you mentioned earlier, which is 2026 has really been a transformative year. And I think one of my favorite stories that came out in the beginning of the year is the craze around OpenClaw, which many of you are probably familiar with or heard about. There was just so much excitement around being able to own your own agent that you have running in your own device, doing work for you while you're gone. And what I've heard was so many people were so excited that they went out to Apple stores and bought their own Mac Mini just to be able to run these agents and do work on their behalf. And I think what's really interesting is we're going to start seeing this, if not already, of this need and use of long -running agents, not just in a personal context, but also in enterprise environments. And if you can think about it, me in my everyday, I can see myself using an agent for writing code or using an agent for supporting customers and so on and so forth. Every employee may have one or 10 agents running concurrently. Now you multiply that across every employee in a given company. And now we're seeing hundreds, if not thousands, of agents running at any given time. And so it really goes back to what Ming has said earlier. We're really going to start agents being used and going to be at really large scales and concurrencies that we haven't really seen before. And I think with the stories and themes we're trying to tell this week really ties back to this observation we are making or seeing within the industry. And so the first story we have is around how you can build these agents and run these agents on Cloudflare's agentic cloud. And what's really interesting is while we have these agents running, these agents are probably going to be producing lots of code as well. And so part of that also is how can we run agent-generated code in a secure, isolated environment at scale? And for those of you who are maybe somewhat familiar with the workers platform already, you might know about our workers compute primitive, which is just such an excellent technology that's almost made for this moment. So we're going to be telling more stories around that. And then day two, or the second story we have, also goes back to what Ming has mentioned around security is going to be at the forefront of everyone's minds. When you have agents that have access to your private resources, your databases, your internal API, you need a way to monitor and control all that usage and make sure it's doing what you want it to do. And then the third major story we have is around how you can build truly intelligent agents. If you think about capable agents, what does it need access to? It probably needs access to external services like memory, ability to spin up sub-agents, access to models, computer use. And so a lot of times what we see happen is that you might be stitching together all of these agent tools from different platforms, managing API tokens, just to get this agent together. But at Cloudflare, we really do have all the raw components you need out of the box ready for you to use. And we always put developer experience at the forefront of how we design our products. So you can really expect a really great experience of building these agents when you build on Cloudflare. And then the fourth kind of final story we have is that once more agents come online, they're going to be starting to browse the web and consume content on the web. And so we're going to see a shift of how the Internet is going to be catering to a new type of audience, right? So beyond just people consuming content, but how does a machine consume content as well? And at Cloudflare, we've been thinking about what new affordances can we offer to website owners and agents to cater, you know, be able to better consume content and pay fairly for the content that they consume. There's a lot there. And the way you actually provided like context is like the days of the week. So it's a buildup in terms of the week, although we really start really strong as the first day of the week on Monday there. And I'm always surprised first how the, and I had many episodes in the past few months, actually, about many things that will have developments now on agents week. May that be even last week, I was talking with Michelle Shen about workers AI, for example, and we'll tell also about markdown for agents, like making things a little bit easier for agents to actually do stuff for us. There's a bunch of things in the stack layer. And of course, we also discussed in the past and more next week, all about containers and sandboxes, how that's important in terms of security that was not built for the agents era, but it actually was really, it was not, we didn't know that that was coming, but it's perfect for this use case. What more can we say without revealing too much, of course, on some of these announcements on some of these topics, maybe. Do you have a perspective there? Yeah, I could talk to some of the cool things coming up. I think one really exciting thing that we've got cooking is, I think a problem that now we see with agents running is agents, they generate a lot of data. You can imagine coding agents, they're making changes to code. There's different versions of the code that they're creating. Not just coding, anytime an agent is generating content, they're doing a lot of it, and they're doing it very often. And you might want to go and see all the different versions that an agent has generated. And so then the problem is, where do you put that data? How do you store that in a way that's scalable for a product where you might have a thousand agents, all working off of something and generating data. And so we're coming out with something really exciting to try to solve that problem. The thing that I'm excited about is looking at, basically, for models are the agent's brain. You can't run an agent without your LLMs. And I think today, though, for real -world use cases, you often need more than just one model. You're often using multiple models together, whether that's because different models are differently suited to different use cases, or you want to use an expensive model for planning, and then you want to use a cheaper model for execution. Also, the best model for something changes so quickly. The best coding model today is whatever, Opus. But in three months, it could be something completely different. And so as a developer, how do we make it really easy for developers to switch out models super quickly, work with a lot of different model providers without having to manage a bunch of different invoices and API keys, keep an eye out for something that will help with that as well? There's so much. So it will definitely be a busy week, and we'll do a recap episode after the week. I'm also curious, Ming, you joined Cloudflare coming from Replicate with amazing experience on models and actually building videos. I actually used Replicate for a teaser about this episode. What has been your experience so far, even in terms of going to your first Innovation Week at Cloudflare, what has been so far? Yeah. I've seen, before I joined Cloudflare, just being around tech, you notice these launches coming out of Cloudflare. But I think being here and then also having a hand in making Innovation Week happen has been such a great experience. I think the thing that I'm probably most impressed by is the kinds of ideas that come out so quick, kind of like last minute, that people just think of and like, oh, man, that'd be really cool. Let's go build it. It's just very bottoms up, so to speak, or kind of individual driven. If someone has a cool idea that they want to ship, they'll just go and do it. And then we'll launch it during an Innovation Week like this. And so I think that's been the coolest thing to see. Makes sense. And Annie, you've been here for longer, but it's your first Innovation Week where you're coordinating, right? I'm also curious about an Innovation Week is something that brings so many teams at Cloudflare together. Sometimes it's a team that was not there, and then there's an idea, and that team will actually provide something. So these deadlines are definitely amazing because sometimes we actually build stuff on what was the initial idea. What has been for you so far? Yeah, exactly. So for some background context, I've interned at Cloudflare twice, and then I've been at Cloudflare for two years full time now. So I've definitely seen a lot of the chaos. And what's really interesting is us speaking to you today, we're still hearing announcements being slotted in for next week. And it's going to be coming in hot, but there's just so much energy that the team has and so much passion. And so that's why we just always see all of these new ideas bubbling up all the time. Yeah, deadlines have that way of just creating things from scratch, like this idea, oh, let's add, let's let, and it's quite amazing to see. And the execution now is crazy. This was great. Anything that we missed that we should say to the audience? No, stay excited, tune in. I think it's going to be one of the best Innovation Weeks we have yet. Yeah, for sure. And of course, people should check the blog, blog .Cloudflare.com, with many announcements every day of the week, starting on Monday and ending on Friday. And of course, we continue even after that. But the Innovation Week will definitely be next week with full of announcements. So stay tuned, geek out as we usually say here. Thank you, Ming. Thank you, Annie. Thank you. Thank you so much. And that's a wrap.