DigitalOcean launches Cuttlefish to supervise AI agents from anywhere, with Box as launch partner. DigitalOcean and Box collaborate to help enterprise developers build agents that work on Box content, run on DigitalOcean Managed Agents, and stay under human control from Cuttlefish, the new iPhone app. Nov 6, 2026 Prev Next 1 of 43,931 DigitalOcean, the AI-Native Cloud, announced a collaboration with Box to support enterprise developers building agents on business content, alongside the launch of DigitalOcean Cuttlefish, a native iPhone app for Managed Agents. DigitalOcean expects enterprises to build on the Box platform, Managed Agents, and Cuttlefish together to take on domain- and function-specific work across teams such as legal, finance, engineering, and support, with the person responsible approving key steps from anywhere. * DigitalOcean Cuttlefish: a native iPhone app to follow live agent sessions, approve or deny tool calls, and steer or stop a run. * Box Mount: syncs a Box folder into each Managed Agents session, so agents work on a team's real contracts, reports, and specs, with Box's permissions, version history, and audit trail applied to every change. "Agentic work is a new paradigm. Builders direct agents that work on projects and check in when a decision needs a human," said Vinay Kumar, Chief Product and Technology Officer of DigitalOcean. "That turns every builder into a supervisor, and supervision shouldn't wait for someone to get back to a desk. Cuttlefish keeps people in control from anywhere, and with Box, their agents can work on the content their companies actually run on." DigitalOcean Cuttlefish: Control your agents' work from anywhere Users follow live sessions as replies, reasoning, and tool calls stream in, with notifications when a run needs approval, finishes, or fails. They approve or deny tool calls with the full command, file path, or diff shown. They can also redirect, pause, or stop a run. Cuttlefish works with whichever harness a team runs on Managed Agents, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, OpenHands, Hermes, LangGraph, and CrewAI. Sessions run in DigitalOcean MicroVMs that persist independently of any device, and billing follows active CPU use, so agent wait time has minimal costs. Box Mount: Your agents work on content in Box with full control Box Mount syncs a Box folder into every session of a Managed Agents environment. Users pick the folder in Cuttlefish. The agent works on plain files; its edits, including deletions, sync to Box, and changes made in Box show up in the workspace. Each person syncs with their own Box account, so Box's permissions, version history, and audit trail apply to every change. "AI agents need secure access to enterprise content to deliver useful results - and the ability to share their output with the right set of collaborators," said Biswaroop Palit, VP, Product Management Platform and Integrations at Box. "With Box Mount, developers using DigitalOcean Managed Agents can give agents secure access to business content in Box, with existing permissions and audit trails preserved. The agent's output syncs back to Box for review by the team of human collaborators. Together, Box and DigitalOcean are helping developers take action on enterprise content while retaining the security, governance and collaboration needs an enterprise relies upon."

Cloud firm DigitalOcean launches iPhone app to approve AI agent actions. Published November 6, 2026 News summary. DigitalOcean launched Cuttlefish for iPhone to supervise cloud AI agents and introduced a private preview of folder syncing with Box. DigitalOcean launched Cuttlefish, an iPhone app that lets customers monitor AI agents running on its cloud and approve or block individual tool calls. The company also teamed with Box to let agents work on shared business files in place. The app and its underlying service are in public preview, while the Box integration remains in private preview. An agent that pauses for approval can turn a routine job into a waiting game. Cuttlefish gives the reviewer a way to respond without returning to a workstation. It can show the command the agent wants to run, the file it wants to touch, or the changes it proposes. The reviewer can deny the request, redirect the agent, or stop the session. The work itself runs in a DigitalOcean microVM, so locking the phone or closing the app leaves the cloud session running. The harder question is what deserves a notification. An engineer may be able to judge a short code change on a phone. A finance manager asked to approve a bulk rewrite of spreadsheets may need to compare several files and check who relies on them. Moving the decision to a phone can shorten a queue. It can also make a poorly designed approval process easier to rush. Edits go back to Box. Box Mount gives an agent access to a selected Box folder through the workspace it uses on DigitalOcean. Changes made in Box appear in the workspace. Edits made by the agent go back to Box, and so do deletions. Users connect their own Box accounts, with existing permissions, version history, and audit records applying to the synchronized changes. For a legal or support team, that could save someone from copying documents into a separate tool and uploading the results by hand. The trade is a shorter path from an agent's mistake to a change its colleagues can see. An audit record can help reconstruct what happened, but a folder shared across departments may contain drafts, templates, and approved documents with very different consequences if changed. A pilot could start with a folder whose contents can be restored and whose owner can recognize a bad edit quickly. The runtime still matters. Cuttlefish works with the agent software customers run on DigitalOcean Managed Agents, including Claude Code, Codex CLI, and OpenCode. That gives development teams several ways to run an agent while using the same mobile interface. It also puts DigitalOcean in charge of the environment where commands execute and session state is kept. For buyers comparing platforms, the question is how easily they can move workspace files and recreate approval rules if they change runtimes. DigitalOcean says runtime billing follows active CPU use, which limits the compute cost of an agent sitting idle for a decision. The employee's time is a separate expense. A pilot that counts only infrastructure charges could look inexpensive while repeatedly interrupting the people it was meant to free up. The iPhone app is available now, but testing the Box workflow depends on access to the private preview. Executive insights FAQ. What should a buyer measure in an initial trial? Track completion time, interventions per task, and minutes spent reviewing exceptions. Compare those figures with the cost and error rate of the existing process. Which approvals should be handled away from a desk? Allow mobile decisions for bounded changes with clear consequences. Route bulk edits and actions involving sensitive records to reviewers with access to the supporting material. What should information security verify before connecting Box? Check which document copies persist in cloud workspaces, who can retrieve them, and what happens to those copies when a user disconnects Box. How can teams test recovery from an agent mistake? Use a disposable folder to simulate a bad batch update, then measure how long administrators take to identify affected files and restore the correct versions. What belongs in a preview deployment plan? Set an exit date, assign a fallback owner, and document how staff will complete pending work if the integration becomes unavailable during the trial.