The Coder briefing: October edition

Cleo CruzOct 28, 2026

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Using Coder Agents to Author Templates in Coder

Templates are a core component of Coder Workspaces, Coder’s remote environment definition. But writing a template is still one of the steepest parts of getting started in your Coder journey. This walkthrough shows you how to go from the Coder Template Builder to using Coder Agents to customize and finalize your template.

How to Give Coder Agents Your Company's Institutional Knowledge

Coder has introduced Agent Relay, launching with Cursor and Claude Code as our first integration partners. Agent Relay gives enterprises a new way to run cloud-hosted coding agents inside secure, self-hosted Coder workspaces instead of the agent vendor's cloud. It answers the question that stalls most enterprise agent rollouts: not whether the agent is good enough, but where it actually executes.

Trusting the Model is Not an AI Security Strategy

Model safety and deployment safety are two different disciplines with two different owners. Here is what enterprises are responsible for, and what it takes to hold it.

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