Scalable Agentic Development platform
Give developers and coding agents the fastest path from code to merge. Ephemeral environments and automated validation on Kubernetes, built for enterprise scale.
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Three building blocks that work together: sandboxes give you isolated environments, jobs run your test suites at scale, and plans encode your team's validation expertise. All inside your existing Kubernetes cluster.
Sandboxes
Lightweight environments that share your existing cluster. Scale to as many parallel environments as your team needs.
Jobs
Execution infrastructure to run the Playwright, Cypress, or custom suites you already have, massively parallel inside your cluster.
Auto-routed to sandboxes · CI ready
Plans
Compose actions into reusable plans that agents run to validate changes.
Developers and agents spin up sandboxes and get instant feedback on every change.
Wealthsimple: faster testingTest against real dependencies in your cluster pre-merge. No mocks.
Earnest: catching bugs earlierScale to thousands of sandboxes without duplicating infrastructure.
Brex: saved $2M annuallyOne Signadot platform powers two loops: fast functional feedback for agents and developers locally, and comprehensive validation for every PR.
Fast functional feedback. Agents close the loop autonomously.
Comprehensive PR validation. Regression, E2E, and non-functional suites.
Tunable isolation
Real systems are more than services answering requests. Signadot ephemeral environments also cover your databases, message queues, workflow engines and batch jobs, and the cloud resources outside Kubernetes they depend on, so every change is validated against the system it will actually run in, however complex.
Share the baseline database and keep each environment's test data apart, or give an environment a database of its own: a temporary instance or schema from a resource plugin, or a branch of a branchable database such as Neon or Xata.
Producers tag each message with the environment's routing key, and consumers handle only the messages meant for them, so every environment shares one broker. Libraries cover Kafka, RabbitMQ, SQS and SNS, Pub/Sub and NATS, and a resource plugin can create a topic or queue per environment instead.
The routing key travels with every workflow, task and job, down to the steps they start. Workers in an ephemeral environment take only the work tagged for it and baseline workers take the rest, from the same queues and servers.
Signadot installs and runs in your Kubernetes cluster, and still reaches past it. A resource plugin creates the cloud resources an environment needs, such as a managed database, a queue or a storage bucket, with your own Terraform or cloud CLI when the environment starts, and removes them when it ends.
A resource plugin is a set of create and delete steps your platform team writes once, with Helm, Terraform, a cloud CLI or a script. Signadot runs create when an ephemeral environment starts and delete when it ends, and hands the outputs, such as a host or credentials, to the environment's forked services as environment variables.
Read about resources in the docsDifferent roles, same platform. Signadot fits into your existing workflows.
You're being asked to adopt AI coding tools and increase developer productivity without increasing headcount or cloud spend. Signadot is the infrastructure layer that makes that possible. Scale validation to match the pace of code generation, without scaling costs.
$2M saved annually
Signadot for the preview environments use case fit what we were trying to do better than anything else. It was a more mature solution than the other stuff that we were looking at. And the return on the investment was obvious... just in infrastructure costs, it saves us about $2 million annually.
Phil BurrowsHead of Platform Engineering You need infrastructure that fits your existing stack, not another abstraction to manage. Signadot is Kubernetes-native and integrates with your service mesh (Istio, Linkerd), CI/CD pipelines, and observability stack. Give your developers and their agents self-service environments without filing tickets.
83% lower change failure rate
We basically stopped creating full preview environments and replaced our custom solution with Signadot. Instead of isolating the full environment, the strategy using routing keys is much lighter, and we are able to provide an isolated environment, even with isolated databases, per PR quite fast.
Marcus TavaresStaff Software Engineer Get instant feedback on every change. No more waiting for a shared staging slot. Your coding agents can spin up sandboxes, run tests, and iterate autonomously to give you back the time you'd spend babysitting their output.
82% lower change failure rate
Signadot is making it easier for our developers to build and test microservices using deployments that are incredibly similar to production. This has made both human and AI-written code easier to validate and test.
Naomi KleinLead Infrastructure Engineer Coding agents generate more code, faster, and in parallel. Signadot gives every developer and agent a lightweight ephemeral environment in your Kubernetes cluster, connected to real services and real dependencies, without duplicating the entire stack. Changes are validated during development and before merge, so your team ships to production as fast as code is written.
Agents and developers use the MCP Server and CLI to establish a secure, bi-directional tunnel between your local workstation and a remote Kubernetes cluster. Instantly test your local code changes end-to-end from mobile, web, or API frontends. No mocks required.
Learn moreGet a lightweight, ephemeral environment for every pull request, scalable to hundreds of concurrent PRs. Integrate easily with your CI to automate setup for every PR. Preview changes, manually validate, and run both functional and non-functional automated tests before merging code.
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Run your Playwright, Cypress or any other tests using Jobs. Signadot Jobs run securely within your Kubernetes cluster and are Sandbox-aware. Shift left end-to-end tests and catch integration issues before merging code.
Explore test scenariosPlatform teams build secure custom actions inside your Kubernetes cluster. Developers compose actions into deterministic plans that coding agents run to validate changes. All runs are fully deterministic, with no token costs, making plans fast and cost-effective at scale.
Learn moreVoice of our customers
Unlike traditional ephemeral environment solutions that duplicate entire infrastructure stacks, Signadot uses a unique approach using sandboxes. This approach virtualizes environments within a single Kubernetes cluster by only duplicating the services needed, dynamically routing requests between the baseline and the sandbox. This allows you to efficiently run thousands of concurrent isolated environments for developers and agents without contention. Environments spin up in seconds, which is critical to enabling agentic workflows that demand fast feedback loops.
Signadot provides these core capabilities:
- Local Development: Connect local workstations, CDEs, or agent runtimes directly to your Kubernetes cluster via isolated sandboxes so agents can write, run, validate, and debug code against real dependencies and live traffic.
- Preview Environments: Automatically generate preview environments for every human or agent PR to validate changes from Web and Mobile frontends.
- Bring Your Own Automated Tests: Execute your K6, Playwright, Cypress, or other test suites against isolated sandboxes that are generated automatically for every PR.
- SmartTests: Validate PRs to catch regressions before merging with AI-powered auto-diff.
- Autonomous Workflows: Equip AI agents with the ability to provision sandboxes and validate their code autonomously via our MCP server
Signadot provides the runtime context and isolation required for agents to function as autonomous engineers. By connecting agent runtimes directly to your Kubernetes cluster via sandboxes, agents gain access to real dependencies and data without risking stability. This allows them to write code, run it against the live system, analyze errors, and self-correct in a tight feedback loop. Instead of just generating code, agents can deliver fully validated solutions that are ready to merge.
Signadot integrates natively with any tool that supports the Model Context Protocol (MCP), including Cursor, Claude Code, and VSCode. This allows your AI agents to provision sandboxes, route traffic, and verify code execution directly within their runtime, turning them into autonomous engineering partners that can validate their own work in a closed loop.
The Signadot MCP Server bridges the gap between your AI agents and your Kubernetes infrastructure. Using the Model Context Protocol standard, it exposes a set of native tools that allow agents to manage ephemeral environments and debug issues using natural language prompts. With the MCP server, coding agents can create and manage Signadot sandboxes and route groups, and fetch cluster context. This enables developers to integrate end-to-end validation with Signadot sandboxes into their autonomous workflows.
Sandboxes are lightweight, isolated testing environments that allow you to test changes without interfering with other developers or the base environment. Unlike traditional approaches that duplicate entire infrastructure, Sandboxes only create the specific components you're modifying and use request routing to provide isolation.
Sandboxes run inside your existing Kubernetes clusters. Signadot installs as an operator in your Kubernetes environment, so all workloads, data, and testing happen within your infrastructure. The Signadot control plane orchestrates the creation and management of these sandboxes, but your code and data never leave your environment.
Getting started with Signadot typically takes less than 15 mins. The minimal setup involves just two steps:
1. Installing the Signadot operator in your Kubernetes cluster.
2. Using our CLI to create Sandboxes and run tests.
Signadot integrates seamlessly with all major CI/CD systems through our CLI, which can be used as a step in your pipeline. This allows you to automate the creation of preview environments for every PR, ensuring that code generated by AI agents is automatically validated before it reaches a human reviewer. We have examples of integrations for GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, and BitBucket in our documentation.
Yes, Signadot works well with service meshes like Istio and Linkerd. While a service mesh is not required to use Signadot, we can leverage existing service mesh capabilities for header-based request routing.
Yes, Signadot provides robust support for automated testing. You can execute tests directly within your cluster, with support for all major testing frameworks including Cypress, Selenium, Playwright, Postman, and custom frameworks. Tests run in pre-warmed pods for faster execution, and results are aggregated in a central dashboard. This is critical for agentic workflows, where agents need immediate feedback from test results to self-correct.
SmartTests are AI-powered API tests that automatically detect breaking changes and contract violations. Written in a simple language called Starlark, they run in both your baseline and sandbox environments, comparing API responses to identify meaningful differences without requiring explicit assertions.
Security is a core principle in Signadot's design. Our architecture ensures your code and data remain within your infrastructure at all times. The Signadot control plane only receives metadata about tests and environments, never your actual code or sensitive data. We support RBAC for granular access control, and our system has undergone third-party security audits. Additionally, Signadot is SOC 2 Type II compliant, demonstrating our commitment to maintaining rigorous security standards.
Signadot supports cloud-native applications built using a microservices architecture running on Kubernetes. It is particularly valuable for teams with 10+ microservices, where testing becomes complex, and for organizations adopting AI coding agents that require high-velocity validation with concurrency for 50+ agents or developers. While it can work with any application that can run in Kubernetes, the benefits become more pronounced as your architecture grows in complexity.
Signadot offers flexible pricing based on the number of active Sandboxes and testing volume. We provide a free tier for small teams and startups, with paid plans scaling based on usage. For detailed pricing information and to find the plan that best fits your needs, please visit our pricing page or contact us for a custom quote.
Signadot complements rather than replaces these tools. While Playwright, Cypress, and Selenium focus on the mechanics of test execution (particularly for UI testing), Signadot provides the isolated environments where these tests can run. You can continue using your existing test frameworks, but run them against Signadot Sandboxes to achieve isolation and parallelism.
Loop-based development means agents run longer, in parallel, and without anyone watching each attempt. What that costs is decided by the verification surface under the agent, not the token price.
How a Tokyo-based legal AI company adapted its internal GKE platform for AI agents, connecting local development to the cluster and validating every PR with Signadot preview environments before merge.
Austin Xu wired Signadot sandboxes into his AI coding agent workflow and moved integration testing inside the agent's loop. A high-level look at his journey, the integration, and the results.
