# 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. ## References - [Announcement post](https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/) ## Related - [[Cloudflare]] · [[Cloudflare Workers]] · [[Wrangler]] - [[Cloudflare Wallets]] — sibling launch for agent payments - [[AI Agents]]