Persistent
Your environment keeps its state between sessions. Close it, reopen it tomorrow, and everything is exactly where you left it.
Now in private beta
The environment platform for teams coding with AI.
AI agents outgrow a laptop fast, and the usual workarounds are all plumbing. Declare a workstation in one file and Ringleader runs it anywhere, makes it feel local, and keeps every developer and agent on the same governed footing.
The whole environment in one file
Declare the machine, the tools, and the AI agent your project needs, then apply the file. Ringleader builds the same workstation every time, on your laptop or in your cloud. Share the file and a teammate is running in minutes, and an agent gets exactly the environment you declared.
# my-workstation.yaml
apiVersion: workstations.ringleader.dev/v1
kind: Workstation
metadata:
name: my-workstation
spec:
image:
os: linux
distribution: debian
packages:
- git
- curl
devtools:
- name: nodejs
- name: claude-code
- name: vscode-web
ports:
- 8080Why Ringleader
"Works on my machine" is the most expensive sentence in software. Ringleader makes the environment itself persistent, reproducible, and shareable, for people and agents alike.
Reproducible
Every environment is defined in code, so it rebuilds identically on any machine: yours, a teammate's, or an agent's.
AI-first
Agents get a real, first-class environment with the same guarantees a human developer has. No ephemeral sandboxes, no drift.
Shareable
Hand an environment to a colleague or an AI agent and they get the very same state: no setup, no 'works on my machine'.
Fast to start
Spin up a ready-to-run workspace in seconds instead of spending days on onboarding and dependency wrangling.
Secure by design
Isolated, auditable environments keep secrets and state contained, so what an agent does is reviewable and contained.
Get running in minutes
Describe your environment in a YAML file and apply it: declarative, just
like kubectl. It stays persistent, so you can close your laptop and pick up
exactly where you left off, or hand the same state to a teammate or an AI agent.
$ ringleader apply -f my-new-great-dx.yaml
workstation/my-new-great-dx created
$ ringleader apply -f my-new-great-dx.yaml
workstation/my-new-great-dx unchangedComing next: governance at scale
The environments your developers already love grow into the control plane your organization needs. Centralized policy with team and personal overrides, governed agent execution, deployment in your own tenant, and an audit trail where every change is declarative and versioned.