What DPE actually is

DPE gives you a real Linux machine, not a session. It is a single-tenant container, yours alone, reached through a live terminal in your browser, and it does not evaporate when the tab closes, when your laptop sleeps, or when you close it for the weekend. The tmux session inside it keeps running whether or not anyone is watching.

That single property, always on, wherever you are, is the whole premise. It means this box is not just somewhere to type commands, it is somewhere to host things: a bot that watches a webhook, a long build that takes four hours, an SSH tunnel you never want to re-establish, a background worker polling an API every minute. Start it here and it keeps running whether your browser tab is open or not, because the process lives in the container, not in the tab.

Every AI coding harness worth having is already installed and already on PATH. vim, nano, and emacs are all tuned and ready. Your clipboard and your local filesystem both reach into the container directly, and so, if you want it, does a real SSH client. None of that is a demo; it is what is actually running here right now. Even the shell prompt knows who you are: it reads <your-devplace-handle>@dpe, not a random container hash.