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A Serverless Platform for Agents
Over the past year we built Pointer thrice: first as a fast, minimal command‑line agent for developers, then as a browser agent to navigate the web, and finally as a focused GUI agent to make the best parts of that experience accessible to teams. Those three iterations taught us the same lesson from different angles: agents need a reliable place to live — to run, scale, observe, and integrate with the rest of a product — without duct tape.
Early 2025: The CLI Agent
Pointer began on the command line. It was opinionated, scriptable, and great for developers. We optimized for speed, deterministic runs, and a clean interface to tools and data. But as soon as agents did anything useful, the real work started: scheduling background runs, handling webhooks, storing state, securing secrets, logging traces, retrying failures, and sharing results with teammates. The moment an agent left a laptop, we were rebuilding infrastructure.
Mid 2025: A GUI for teams
We then built a GUI agent to make collaboration smoother. It helped more people use agents day‑to‑day, but the same platform needs surfaced again: queues, triggers, storage, observability, and safe execution boundaries. The interface changed — the core requirements didn’t.
What became obvious
The gap wasn’t another agent wrapper. It was the absence of a simple, serverless runtime for agents that treats agents like first‑class cloud workloads: ephemeral compute when you need it, durable state when you don’t, clean APIs, and production‑grade traces and controls by default.
Pointer → Agentbase
That’s why we’re evolving Pointer into Agentbase — a serverless platform for agents. The goal is to help move software from agent‑compatible to agent‑native: where agents are part of the product surface, not glued on after the fact.
What Agentbase is
- An execution base for agents: trigger by API, schedule, or webhook; run with isolated compute and clear limits.
- First‑class observability: logs, events, spans, and replayable runs so you can iterate with confidence.
- Durable primitives: simple storage, secrets, and queues that fit the way agents actually work.
- Composable interfaces: bring your own model, tools, and data; keep your product’s auth and shape intact.
For product teams
If you’re shipping agent features in a real product, you shouldn’t be rebuilding runtime plumbing. Agentbase aims to give you a clean, managed base so you can focus on behavior, interfaces, and outcomes — not infrastructure.
We’ll share progress and patterns in the changelog as we build. you’re migrating features to agent‑native or starting fresh, we’d love to collaborate.
Pointer is now Agentbase. The mission stays the same — help teams ship useful agents — with a platform that makes it practical.
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