> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://getskydive.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> Every agent has its own computer in the cloud

Every Skydive agent has its own computer: an isolated Linux machine in the cloud, provisioned on demand and separate from every other agent's. Anything you can do on a computer, your agent can do there.

That is what separates an agent from a chatbot. It is not describing the work to you, it is doing the work on a machine.

## What is on it

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  <Card title="Browser" icon="window" href="/docs/capabilities/browser">
    A real browser it drives. Fill in forms, click through dashboards, pull what has no API.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Files" icon="folder-open" href="/docs/capabilities/files">
    A shared folder you both read and write. Deliverables land here.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Terminal" icon="terminal" href="/docs/capabilities/terminal">
    A full shell. Run code, install packages, drive command-line tools.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Search" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/docs/capabilities/web-search">
    Search the web and fetch pages, without opening a browser.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Apps & webserver" icon="server" href="/docs/capabilities/webserver">
    Host a live web app at a URL you can visit.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Storage" icon="database" href="/docs/capabilities/storage">
    A managed Postgres database for anything that has to persist.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>

## It keeps working when you stop

The computer is not your laptop, so nothing depends on your laptop staying awake. Close the lid and the agent keeps going: a long build finishes, a [routine](/docs/agents/routines) fires at 3am, a browser session works through a queue.

The sandbox sleeps when idle and wakes on demand. Work that must survive a restart goes in the agent's [repo](/docs/agents/repo), its [files](/docs/capabilities/files), or [storage](/docs/capabilities/storage).

## Two computers, one job

Some work lives on your machine instead: a repo you have checked out, a dev server on `localhost`, a tool only installed locally. [Portal](/docs/integrations/portal) is the bridge. The agent reads what it needs from your machine, then moves the work up to its own computer and carries on.

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  <Card title="Sizes" icon="gauge-high" href="/docs/capabilities/sizes">
    How much machine an agent gets, and how it asks for more.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Network controls" icon="shield-halved" href="/docs/capabilities/network">
    What the computer can reach on the internet, and how that is governed.
  </Card>
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