exe Documentation

What is exe.dev?

VMs, on the internet, quickly

Getting Help

How to get support for exe.dev

exe.dev HTTP Proxies

Publish to the Internet, both privately and publicly

Sharing

share it like it's hot

Customizing VMs

Three ways to customize your exe.dev VMs

Private Docker Registries

You can run a docker registry to distribute your own images.

Custom Domains

Use your own domain with exe.dev

Login with exe

Use exe.dev's authentication system in your applications

LLM Gateway

LLM tokens included

Regions

Available exe.dev regions

API

Programmatic access via SSH

HTTPS API

Programmatic access via HTTPS

HTTPS API Local Key Creation

Create API tokens locally by signing with your SSH key

HTTPS Tokens for VMs

Bearer tokens for programmatic access to VM HTTPS endpoints

Receive email

Receive emails to your VM

Send email

Send emails from your VM

What are Integrations?

Integrate exe.dev with other tools and services

HTTP Proxy Integration

Inject headers into HTTP requests from your VM

GitHub Integration

Connect your GitHub account to exe.dev for private repo access

Attaching Integrations

Attach integrations to VMs using direct attachment, tags, or auto-attach

What is Shelley?

Our coding agent

Bring Your Own Key

Use your own API keys with Shelley

AGENTS.md

Guidance files for Shelley

Upgrading Shelley

Keep Shelley up to date

Teams

Shared VM management for your organization

Managing Members

Create a team, invite people, manage roles

Team VMs

How VMs work within a team

Shelley

How Shelley credits work for team members

Team SSO

Set up Google OAuth or OIDC for your team

What is the host key for exe.dev?

How to verify you're connecting to exe.dev

How do I use a specific SSH key for exe.dev?

Configure SSH to use a specific key

How do I connect VSCode to my VM?

Open your VM in VSCode

How do I copy files to/from my VM?

Transfer files with scp

Can I run docker images?

Running Docker on exe.dev VMs

How do you pronounce "exe"?

The official pronunciation

How do I access GitHub? How do I set up a minimal GitHub token?

GitHub access and fine-grained tokens

How do I connect from one VM to another?

SSH, Tailscale, and other tricks

How do I set up tab completion for VM names?

Autocomplete exe.xyz VM hostnames in your favorite shell

How does exe.dev work?

behind-the-scenes look

ssh exe.dev sometimes asks me to register

how to solve heisen-connection issues

I found an undocumented command! Can I use it?

Using undocumented commands

How do I run Next.js, Vite, or other JS dev servers on my VM?

Configure allowedDevOrigins (Next.js) or server.allowedHosts (Vite) so the dev server accepts requests from your exe.dev hostname.

Teach your coding agent to exe.dev

Agent skill and docs for coding agents

Intro

an open source reactive notebook

Dev, Test, Prod: Choose One, Two, or Three

You can build, test, and deploy on exe.dev.

Flue

Run Flue agentic apps on exe.dev

Openclaw

Openclaw, formerly known as Moltbot, formerly known as Clawdbot

Running Agents

use exe.dev VMs as a sandbox

Running a self-hosted GitHub Actions Runner

log in easily into your CI environment

Spinning up a Marimo Notebook

an open source reactive notebook

Lock-in on exe.dev

It's just a computer. Of the Linux sort.

Persistent disks, not serverless

exe.dev is serverful, not serverless

Put your agent in a VM and let it be

Agent security is unsolved; a virtual machine is pragmatic

The GUTS Stack

Go, Unix, TypeScript, SQLite

Why exe.dev?

EXE is just a computer.

help

Show help information

doc

Browse documentation

ls

List your VMs

new

Create a new VM

rm

Delete a VM

restart

Restart a VM

rename

rename a vm

tag

Add or remove tags on a VM

cp

Copy an existing VM

stat

Show CPU, memory, disk, and IO metrics for a VM

resize

Resize a VM's resources (memory, CPU, disk)

comment

Set or clear a short comment on a VM

share

Share HTTPS VM access with others

whoami

Show your user information including email and all SSH keys.

ssh-key

Manage SSH keys for your account

set-region

Set your preferred region for new VMs.

integrations

Manage integrations

team

View and manage your team

billing

View and manage your billing

shelley

Manage Shelley agent on VMs

browser

Generate a magic link to log in to the website

ssh

SSH into a VM

grant-support-root

Allow exe.dev support to log in to a VM

exit

Exit

Help & Community

Join our Discord

Privacy Notice

How exe.dev handles your data

Terms of Service

Terms and conditions for using exe.dev

What are long tail docs?

Suggest links

Pre-filled command runners at https://exe.dev/suggest