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I let my AI agent deploy a Next.js app and it actually worked
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I let my AI agent deploy a Next.js app and it actually worked

via Dev.toJonas Birmé16h ago

I've been using Claude and Cursor to write code for a while now. The part that always annoyed me was the handoff. The agent writes the app, then I alt-tab to some dashboard, click through a deploy wizard, set up a database in another tab, configure env vars somewhere else. The agent did the interesting work. I got the chores. So I tried something different: I connected an MCP server to Claude that has actual infrastructure tools — not just "read your logs" tools, but tools that create databases, deploy apps, set up domains. The MCP server is from Open Source Cloud , and the tool I cared about was create-my-app . The deploy Here's the literal prompt I used: Deploy my Next.js app from https://github.com/myuser/my-app as a Node.js app called "myapp" The agent called create-my-app . OSC pulled the repo, detected Next.js, built it, deployed it to Kubernetes, and gave me an HTTPS URL at *.apps.osaas.io with TLS already configured. Took about 30 seconds. No Dockerfile. No build config. No YAM

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