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by mdeeks 241 days ago
This is possibly what I want? It's hard to tell from all of the marketing on the site.

I want to run a prompt that operates in an isolated environment that is open in my IDE where I can iterate with the AI. I think maybe it can do this?
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simonw 241 days ago
Not quite. This doesn't (yet) have an option where you can connect your local IDE to their remote containers to edit files directly. It's more of a fire-and-forget thing where you can eventually suck the resulting code down to your local machine using "claude --teleport ..." - but then it's not running in the cloud any more.
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tomvault 241 days ago
CEO at Ona (formerly Gitpod) here. Every ephemeral environment Ona creates can directly connect to your Desktop IDE for easy handoff. Our team goes from prompt -> iterating in conversation -> VS Code Web -> VS Code Desktop/Cursor depending on task complexity and quality of the agent output. We call this progressive engagement and have written about it here https://ona.com/docs/ona/best-practices#progressive-engageme...
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mdeeks 241 days ago
Thanks, I'll give it a shot. I wish your site would show me what it actually looks like. It's a lot of words and fancy marketing images and I have no feel for the product. It leaves me unsure if I should invest my time.

I'd love to see a short animation of what it would actually look like to do the core flow. Prompt -> environment creation -> iterating -> popping open VSCode Web -> Popping open Cursor desktop.

Also, a lot of the links on that page you linked me to are broken:

  * "manual edits and Ona Agents is very powerful." 
  * "Ona’s automations.yaml extends it with tasks and services"
  * "devcontainer.json describes the tools"
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mdeeks 241 days ago
I signed up and tried it with Cursor. It is very close, but still has a lot of rough edges that make it hard to switch:

  * Once in Cursor I can't click on modified files or lines and have my IDE jump to it. Very hard to review changes.
  * I closed the Ona tab and couldn't figure out how to get it back so I could prompt it again.
  * I can't pin the Ona tab to the right like Cursor does
  * Is there a way to select lines and add them to context?
  * Is there a way I can pick a model?
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