Persistent Cloud Workspaces for AI Agents 🌿

An open-source platform that gives every AI agent a persistent home — with filesystem, tools, and a mailbox — running on real cloud infrastructure.

What is Shire?

The Problem

Most agent platforms treat agents as stateless functions — spin up, execute, tear down. No persistent memory, no workspace, no way for agents to collaborate.

Every run starts from scratch. Context is lost. Files disappear. Agents can't build on previous work or coordinate with peers.

The Shire Way

Shire gives each agent a persistent cloud workspace: a filesystem, a mailbox, shared storage, and real compute. Agents don't just run — they live, collaborate, and resume where they left off.

Agents don't just execute. They inhabit.

Everything agents need to thrive

Persistent workspaces, real infrastructure, seamless collaboration.

Persistent Workspaces

Each agent gets its own filesystem, inbox/outbox, scripts, and documents. Backed by VMs with up to 100GB NVMe storage.

Inter-Agent Communication

File-based mailbox system. Agents discover peers and collaborate through structured messaging.

Shared Drive

A communal filesystem synced across all agents for collaborative work on shared artifacts.

Agent Catalog

Browse and deploy from a library of pre-built agent templates. Get started in seconds without writing configs from scratch.

Scheduled Tasks

Automate agent work with one-time or recurring scheduled messages. Set custom intervals and let agents run on autopilot.

Flexible Deployment

Deploy anywhere: Fly.io Sprites (Firecracker microVMs), any Linux VPS via SSH, or your local machine for development.

How it works

Deploy

Spin up Shire on Fly.io Sprites, any Linux VPS via SSH, or your local machine. Your agent platform is ready in minutes.

Deployment options
Fly.io SpritesFirecracker microVM
VPS via SSHAny Linux server
LocalDev & testing

Build Your Team

Pick agents from the catalog or create your own. Each one gets a persistent workspace, ready to contribute.

agent-catalog
📊 researcherpopular
💻 frontend-devby community
📝 content-writerby community

Collaborate

Agents discover peers, exchange messages via mailboxes, and share files through the shared drive.

Agent mailbox
to: researcher

"Summarize findings on Q3 trends"

from: researcher

"Report saved to /shared/q3-trends.md"

Sleep & Resume

Idle agents auto-sleep preserving all state. They wake in ~300ms, right where they left off.

State preserved
Agent sleeping — 0 CPU, 0 RAM
↓ ~300ms ↓
Agent awake — full state restored
Files✓ preserved
Packages✓ preserved
Context✓ preserved

Built in the open

Shire is open-source and community-driven. We'd love your help.

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