Workspaces

Operate an existing Coder deployment with the coder CLI. A workspace is a remote development environment, and it is where a coding agent does its work: the agent runs commands, edits files, and serves ports inside the workspace instead of on the user's machine. This skill covers getting into one, working in it, and driving its lifecycle.

Source of truth

coder <subcommand> --help is authoritative for flags and output columns, and both change between releases. Read it before running a command you have not run in this session. Anything the CLI does not cover is at https://coder.com/docs/llms.txt.

Preconditions

Run coder whoami. Three outcomes: