February kept us busy! Thanks to all our users for the great feedback, so many bug fixes and quick improvements were possible because of high quality reports.

Here are a few things we shipped in February:

Idea templates

The new VM page now has a gallery of idea templates: one-click setups for apps like Gitea, VS Code, Ghost, Minecraft, Grafana, Outline, and more. Each template comes with a tailored prompt that Shelley uses to set up the app automatically, including auth configuration. And of course it includes the most popular one, OpenClaw.

More than anything, the goal of idea templates is to demonstrate what you can do with a prompt. That empty text box is far more powerful than it looks.

Take a look at them at exe.dev/idea.

HTTPS API

We published an HTTPS API. You can now script exe.dev programmatically — create VMs, manage them, and integrate with your existing tooling — from systems that cannot SSH. There is a particularly fun approach to API tokens using SSH key signing.

Shelley

Shelley has had a busy month. With conversation distillation, Shelley uses an LLM to restart the context window with just the right context to continue the conversation. The browser tool learned new tricks, including taking profiles of its browsing for web development, which in turn yielded some performance improvements in the UI. By popular demand, Markdown rendering now happens in conversations by default. You can run !bash in the chat window and pop a shell. We always keep up with the newest models. Enable notifications in the ⌘K palette so you can stay on top of your agents. Use Shelley across a wide variety of (human) langauges with internationalization support.

exe.dev also now supports buying LLM credits as you go.

As always, you can find us in our discord.