Solutions · Team workloads
Team localdev.
Every engineer gets a large remoco for their daily dev loop. Parallel worktrees per branch, shared dotfiles via git, per-person SSO via WorkOS, one admin dashboard for the lead. Idle-suspend off hours keeps the bill in check.
Why move localdev to remoco
- Onboarding goes from "here's a 40-page setup doc" to "
remoco init" - Dev containers always match prod — same image, same deps, reproducible
- 3 parallel worktrees per person, no laptop-killing docker swarm
- Claude Code / Codex run on the dev environment, not against it
- Ephemeral PR preview URLs on every branch, no Heroku review-apps bills
Deploy to a remoco
As an admin, paste this once. The agent provisions one remoco per engineer in your WorkOS directory.
Paste into Claude Code or Codex
claudecodex
# provision a remoco per engineer for our team's dev loop
list users in our workos directory (via control-plane API).
for each active user:
1. provision a large-class remoco named after their shortname
2. grant workstations.user via their google/okta identity
3. clone our primary monorepo + pre-run pnpm install on first boot
4. pre-register portless aliases for the main services (web, api, docs)
5. set idle timeout to 2 hours (aggressive; resume is ~10s)
6. bake our team dotfiles repo into /home/user on first boot
send each user a welcome email with the ssh command and the URL pattern
(<branch>.<svc>.<them>.remoco.dev).
return the admin dashboard URL for the fleet.
The URL shape your team will use
<branch>.<service>.<eng>.remoco.dev # dev preview, SSO-gated # examples: main.web.wiley.remoco.dev pr-221.api.luke.remoco.dev hero-redesign.docs.sara.remoco.dev
Cost
Large class · 8h/day × 5d ≈ 160 hrs/mo per seat × 10 seats = 1,600 hrs/mo. After 40 included/seat, 1,200 billable × $0.62 = $744. Plus $99 × 10 = $990 Team plan = ~$1,734/mo. $79/mo annual term drops plan to $790 → ~$1,534/mo annualized.
Compared to laptops. M4 Pro Max averages $3,500 at 3-year refresh = ~$97/mo/engineer. Add AWS Workspaces or GitHub Codespaces on top and you're at $150+/mo/engineer before the Ops time to maintain either. Remoco at $153/mo/seat covers the whole loop.