Cloud Desktop

Syntic Cloud Desktop is a browser-based coding environment that gives every developer on your team an isolated, fully-provisioned dev box with Syntic Code already installed and signed in.

No local install. No “works on my machine.” Open a tab, start coding.

When to Use Cloud Desktop

• Onboarding — new hire ships a PR on day one
• Confidential repos — code never leaves your VPC
• Long-running tasks — agents keep working when you close the laptop
• Cross-device — start on a Mac, finish on an iPad
• CI-style tasks — fire-and-forget refactors that run in the background

Architecture

Each desktop is a hardened container with:

• A full Linux userland (Ubuntu 24.04 LTS)
• The syntic CLI pre-installed and pre-authenticated
• Your repos cloned and ready
• Configurable resource limits (CPU, RAM, disk)
• Persistent home directory across sessions

Desktops run on Syntic’s cloud by default. Enterprise customers can self-host on AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-prem Kubernetes.

Get Started

1. Sign in at app.syntic.ai.
2. Click New Desktop.
3. Pick a region, size, and base image.
4. Connect a GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket account so your repos clone automatically.
5. Click Open — your browser tab is now a terminal + editor.

Working in a Desktop

The Cloud Desktop UI gives you:

• Terminal — full TTY, syntic ready
• Editor — Monaco-based, multi-file, with diff view
• File tree — drag-and-drop upload
• Live preview — for web projects (auto-forwards localhost ports)
• Activity log — every agent action, audited

Persistence

Background Agents

Start a long-running task and close your laptop:

syntic --background "migrate all React class components to function components, open a PR per file"

The agent keeps running on the desktop. You’ll get an email when it finishes.

Pricing & Limits

See syntic.ai/pricing for plans, sizes, and per-hour rates.

Related

• CLI Reference — Everything works the same in the desktop terminal
• Enterprise — Self-hosted desktops on your infrastructure