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What a Takin environment includes, and how the pieces fit together.

Takin work area with three feature clones of one stack: Login feature with its web dev server and API tests, Search feature with its dev server on the same port, and Vite upgrade with the commits and passing tests of a coding agentTakin work area with three feature clones of one stack: Login feature with its web dev server and API tests, Search feature with its dev server on the same port, and Vite upgrade with the commits and passing tests of a coding agent

Machines

Machines and Images

Each environment is a KVM virtual machine with your own Linux user and sudo. Start from a prepared Ubuntu or Debian Image, terminal-only or with GNOME or KDE Plasma, with shell and editor defaults already set. Install anything else the usual way, including Docker.

Pick a size at creation, add CPU and memory while it runs, grow the disk later. Images do not change under you: a newer Image is a new starting point, your existing environments stay as they are.

Clones

Clones and snapshots

A snapshot captures the disk of an environment. Restore it in place, or create a clone: a new, independent environment that starts with the same contents and a port space of its own.

Snapshots are crash-consistent disk images, not memory dumps, so services start fresh in a clone. Clones count against your account's storage like any environment.

Takin work area with the stopped baseline Todo app and its clones Login feature and Search feature side by side, each running its web dev server on localhost:5173 and API tests on its own feature branchTakin work area with the stopped baseline Todo app and its clones Login feature and Search feature side by side, each running its web dev server on localhost:5173 and API tests on its own feature branch

Sessions

Sessions and layout

Terminal sessions and desktops live on the machine, not in your browser. Open the same session in the browser and over SSH.

Arrange terminals and desktops in a tiled layout per environment, resize by dragging, go fullscreen. The layout is saved with your account. Updates to Takin itself do not end your sessions, and copy and paste works between your computer and environment desktops.

Previews

Previews and graphical tools

Ctrl+click a localhost link in a terminal and the dev server opens in your browser over private HTTPS, WebSockets and hot reload included. Only you can open it.

For anything graphical, use the environment's desktop next to your terminals.

Takin terminal in the Search feature clone running the Vite dev server, with the hint Ctrl+click or Cmd+click to open on http://localhost:5173/; in front, a second browser window shows the todo app's search at its private preview addressTakin terminal in the Search feature clone running the Vite dev server, with the hint Ctrl+click or Cmd+click to open on http://localhost:5173/; in front, a second browser window shows the todo app's search at its private preview address

Automation

Automation and control

HTTP and MCP give scripts and AI clients the same environments: create, clone, run commands, transfer files, follow terminals and operations. Review and revoke connected apps at any time.

Account limits keep usage predictable, and you can download or delete your account data.

See it in a workflow

WorkflowDevelop features across your whole stackBackend, frontend and schema change together, in one clone per feature.Read the workflow WorkflowRun parallel coding agentsEach agent gets its own clone and keeps working after you close the laptop.Read the workflow WorkflowWork from different computersSwitch computers and find your sessions and layout where you left them.Read the workflow

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