# Migrating from Terragon

Terragon: Wound down. Here's what carried over, what changes once the board is server-side, and your first week on CodeHerder.

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Alternatives · Terragon

A cloud-VM background-agent orchestrator for Claude Code and Codex, wound down within a year of most people hearing about it.

What happened

January 11, 2026

Terragon announced its wind-down on January 11, 2026. The service itself stopped running on February 9, 2026, and the team open-sourced the codebase as a final snapshot rather than leaving it to go quiet.

## What Terragon got right

- No local hardware requirement: every task ran on a VM Terragon provisioned, not your laptop.
- Cloud execution per task, so a long-running agent didn't tie up a machine you needed for something else.

What carries over

## The same ideas, different names

Nothing here is a new concept. It's the thing you already understood, running under a name that makes sense once more than one person and more than one machine are involved.

## What changes once the board is server-side

- You bring the device, your own machine or a cloud instance you provision yourself, so the compute cost is yours to size rather than a vendor's line item that can vanish with the vendor.
- Staffing happens server-side across every device you register, not a single queue against one vendor's own VMs.
- Every task carries its own cost, broken out by stage and by model, with a cap you can set before a task runs rather than a bill you find out about after.
- A task can require a second person's approval before it merges, the separation of duties a single always-on cloud queue doesn't need until more than one person is using it.

Your first week

## From Terragon to a merged pull request

1. 1 Get started Sign in and create a workspace. There's no separate account to set up later for the CLI. [Get started →](https://codeherder.com/get-started/)
2. 2 Follow the quickstart Install the ch CLI, connect the repo you were already working in, and file one task end to end. [Quickstart →](https://codeherder.com/docs/quickstart/)
3. 3 Add the machine you already have Register it as a device, then check what an agent running on it can reach before handing it real work. [Adding a device →](https://codeherder.com/docs/adding-a-device/) · [Isolating agent runs →](https://codeherder.com/docs/agent-isolation/)
4. 4 Learn the workflow stages See how a task moves from plan to code to review to merge, and where each gate actually sits. [How work flows →](https://codeherder.com/docs/how-work-flows/)
5. 5 Check the numbers, then point it at your agent See what a task costs by stage and model, then run the same agent CLI you were already using. [Understanding costs →](https://codeherder.com/docs/costs/) · [Works with Claude Code →](https://codeherder.com/works-with/claude-code/)

Questions

## What people migrating from Terragon ask

Do I have to give up my own machine?

No, and you don't have to replace Terragon's cloud VMs with your own hardware either. Register whatever you want tasks to run on, a laptop, a spare workstation, or a cloud instance you provision yourself, and CodeHerder treats it the same way.

Does it run the same agent CLI?

Yes. Claude Code and Codex both work as CodeHerder harnesses, alongside Cursor, OpenCode, and Pi, so the agent Terragon was running for you keeps running, just on infrastructure you control.

What does it cost per task?

You bring your own model provider key, so token spend goes straight to your provider rather than through a CodeHerder markup. The platform itself is metered on concurrent agents; see the pricing and calculator pages for real numbers.

Do I need to keep paying for cloud VMs?

Only if you want cloud execution. A registered device can be a machine you already own just as easily as a cloud instance, so the always-on VM bill Terragon used to carry becomes a choice instead of the only option.

## Sources

Verified against Terragon's own published notice as of 2026-08-08.

- Terragon shutdown notice

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