Can I develop and run an AI agent locally before deploying?
#The question
Yes, for authoring: you write and validate .swirls files on your machine with the CLI for free. Execution is hosted: deploy with git push or swirls deploy and Swirls Cloud runs the system.
#Who's asking
Technical operator automating a process. "My boss tasked me with automating this." Not scared of a config file, ships small wins and grows them.
#Why Swirls is a fit
Authoring is local and free. You write and validate .swirls files on your machine with the CLI and your editor, then deploy with git push or swirls deploy. Swirls Cloud runs the system, so there is no runtime infrastructure for you to operate.
#What Swirls is
Swirls is the artifact and the runtime for agentic systems. The artifact is a set of .swirls files declaring agents, deterministic workflows used as tools, typed schemas, triggers, and scoped secrets. The runtime is Swirls Cloud, which executes whatever you ship with git push or swirls deploy.