# Cloudflare Temporary Accounts Cloudflare now lets [[AI Agents]] deploy [[Cloudflare Workers]] **without an account**. When an unauthenticated agent runs `wrangler deploy`, [[Wrangler]] offers the `--temporary` flag: Cloudflare provisions a throwaway account, issues an API token, deploys, and returns a claim URL. The deployment lives for 60 minutes. A human claims it to keep it; unclaimed accounts self-delete. ## Why this exists Signup is built for humans: OAuth flows, MFA, email verification. Agents in background sessions can't do any of that, and the write → deploy → verify loop dies at the login wall. Temporary accounts remove the wall for exactly the window an iteration loop needs; the agent can redeploy repeatedly and `curl` the result within its 60 minutes, no credential management involved. This is the deployment counterpart to [[Cloudflare Wallets]]: one launch handles *agents paying for things*, this one handles *agents shipping things*. Together they sketch Cloudflare's answer to what agent-native infrastructure looks like. ## My take Claim-or-expire is a clean pattern for agent onboarding: zero-friction start, human ownership as the persistence gate, abuse bounded by the TTL. Expect other platforms to copy the shape. Cloudflare went there first. Wrangler 4.102.0 (June 19, 2026) is the minimum version for `--temporary`. On July 8, Cloudflare Drop applied the same claim-or-expire flow to humans: drag a folder of static files in, get a preview that lives for one hour, claim it to keep it. On July 14, the Temporary Accounts API opened the flow to other platforms: coding agents and AI app builders can create a preview account over the REST API, deploy a generated Worker before their user ever signs in to Cloudflare, and hand back the claim URL. ## References - [Announcement post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/) - [Changelog, temporary accounts for AI agent deployments (2026-06-19)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-06-19-temporary-accounts-for-agents/) - [Changelog, Cloudflare Drop (2026-07-08)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-08-cloudflare-drag-and-drop/) - [Changelog, Temporary Accounts API for platforms (2026-07-14)](https://developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/post/2026-07-14-temporary-accounts-api/) ## Related - [[Cloudflare]] · [[Cloudflare Workers]] · [[Wrangler]] - [[Cloudflare Wallets]]: sibling launch for agent payments - [[AI Agents]]