Prized docs

Overview.

Prized gives you a dedicated Linux box in the cloud. Your files appear in a folder on your machine, box ports appear on your localhost, and terminal sessions survive closing the laptop.

How it works

You edit and run everything on the box over SSH. Three things tie it to your laptop:

  • Sync. A folder on your machine mirrors ~/code/<name> on the box, both ways, .git included.
  • Ports. A dev server you start on the box shows up on your laptop's localhost within seconds.
  • Sessions. Your shell runs in tmux on the box, so a closed lid ends the connection, not the work.

The pieces

PieceWhat it is
prizedThe CLI on your laptop (macOS, Linux, or Windows).
prizeddA background daemon on your machine. Runs sync and mirrors box ports onto localhost.
prized-agentA service on the box. Finds listening ports, reports vitals, lists tmux sessions.
Dashboardprized.dev. Create boxes, watch their state, manage billing; every screen is on Dashboard.

What's on the box

Ubuntu, with root. Preinstalled: Docker (compose and buildx), git, tmux, mosh, ripgrep, jq, the GitHub CLI, Claude Code, and Codex; Cursor's CLI installs on demand; the full inventory, sizes, and disks are on Machines. prized setup hands your own agent sign-ins over from your machine, so nothing on the box needs a fresh OAuth flow. See Credentials.

For agents

Every page here is also plain Markdown: add .md to its URL (this page is /docs.md), or request the page URL with Accept: text/markdown. The buttons under each title copy the page as Markdown or open it in ChatGPT, Claude, or Cursor.

  • Index. /llms.txt lists every page with a one-line summary, in this order.
  • Everything. /llms-full.txt is the whole set in one file.
  • Search. GET /api/search?query=<words> returns JSON hits, each with the page URL and the matching heading or paragraph.
  • Setup. To let an agent install and set Prized up for you, paste the prompt on Agent setup.

All pages

The same groups as the sidebar.

Get started

Quickstart

Signup to a synced project in about five minutes.

Agent setup

One prompt that lets your coding agent do the setup.

Bring your environment

Your shell, toolchains, CLIs, Docker images, and databases, moved with a few yes or no questions.

Connect

Sync

Two-way file sync between the box and your machine.

Mount

The whole box in Finder, nothing copied.

Ports

Servers on the box appear on your localhost.

Sessions

Terminal sessions that survive a closed lid.

Run commands and files

Run a command, leave one running, or copy files, from the CLI or any script.

Desktop

A Linux desktop, or a single Chrome window, from the box in your browser.

Agents

Agents

Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor working on the box overnight.

Prompt an agent remotely

Send the box's agent a prompt from your machine, follow it, interrupt it.

Codex remote

The ChatGPT desktop app running Codex tasks on your box.

Claude Desktop remote

The Claude desktop app pointed at your box over SSH.

Boxes

Boxes

Create, pause, resize, snapshot, and delete boxes.

Machines

Sizes, disk, Ubuntu 24.04, and what is preinstalled.

Snapshots

Snapshot, restore, fork, templates, and schedules.

Environments

What a new box inherits: repos, a setup script, vars, secret files.

Credentials

Git, cloud, and model credentials live on your box.

Connectors

Brokered credentials mounted into a box, never written to its disk.

Reference

CLI

Every prized command, flag, and exit code.

API reference

Every HTTP route a CLI token can call.

Dashboard

Every screen in the web app, and where each setting lives.

Account

Workspaces

One account for the whole team; join by email domain or invite link.

Teams

Roles, policies, quiet hours, the audit log, scoped secrets, and live activity for a shared workspace.

Billing

Monthly plans, hourly rates, and the balance your plan refills.

Limits

Every hard cap a box or a workspace can hit, and how a refusal reads.

Data retention

What pausing, deleting, and closing keep and remove.

Support

Troubleshooting

prized doctor and fixes for the common failures.

Security and trust

How a box is reached, what Prized can and cannot see, and how to report a problem.

Privacy

What Prized records about your usage, and what it never records.

Something unclear or out of date?

Quickstart

Four steps from signup to a box with your project on it and your coding agent signed in. You need a Mac, a Linux machine, or a Windows PC.

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