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Monk is the operations agent for your app, and you use it from your coding agent. It plans the infrastructure and service connections your app needs, deploys to your own cloud account after you approve, and keeps a model of what it runs that doesn’t depend on any one chat session.

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How it fits together

A one-line installer adds the Monk plugin, or a monk MCP server entry, to the coding agents on your computer: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others. Your agent talks to Monk’s local companion, monk-agent, which talks to Monk’s orchestrator. Your app’s resources run in your cloud account on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, DigitalOcean or Hetzner, or on your own machine.

Quickstart

Install, sign in, ask for a plan and approve it

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Two ways to start

I’m starting a new app. Build it with your coding agent, then ask Monk to plan a deployment. You review the plan and its estimated cost before anything is created. My app is already running. Monk builds a new environment from your source code alongside the current one and leaves the original alone. It doesn’t copy your data, undocumented settings or external account state. Moving data and switching traffic are separate steps you review. Both environments cost money while they run side by side. Either way, the first prompt is the same:

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What you do and what Monk does

Monk doesn’t edit your application code. Plans, credential forms and other approvals open in the local dashboard on your computer, so credentials never go into the chat.

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After the first deployment

  • The orchestrator restarts and reschedules managed workloads within its policies.
  • Watcher, if you set it up, sends crash and resource alerts with an AI-written diagnosis to Slack. Any fix it proposes waits for your approval.
  • CI/CD with GitHub Actions deploys when you push.
  • You can ask for status, logs and cost at any time.
Your cloud provider bills you for the resources. Your Monk subscription and your coding agent’s subscription are separate costs.

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Where to go next

Quickstart

From install to an approved plan

First deployment

What each approval shows

How Monk compares

Monk next to Terraform, Kubernetes and hosting platforms

Integrations

Services and providers Monk can manage