The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform
Conference Context
- Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am
- Track/room: AI Architects: AI Factories · Leadership 2
- Speaker(s): Safia Abdalla
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
- Track: AI Architects: AI Factories
- Room: Leadership 2
- Session type: session
- Status: confirmed
Session Description
At Warp, we’re building Oz to be the platform that enables people to be creative and build with cloud agents. That sounds simple, but only because the job of good developer tooling is to take on complexity before it reaches the user. The best tools fit into the way developers already think, then make accessible work that used to feel out of reach. This talk is about the engineering philosophy behind that work: how Warp’s evolution from terminal to local agent to Oz shaped the way we think about building for developers. The focus is not on inventing brand-new abstractions for their own sake, but on making a messy stack of real engineering concerns feel coherent: where agents run, how they delegate, how teams control their environments, how humans can see what happened, and how the platform leaves room for people to build things they couldn’t even imagine before. 4:04 PM
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The Agent Behind the Curtain: Building the Oz Cloud Agent Platform ## Conference Context - Date/time: 2026-07-01 · 10:45am-11:05am - Track/room: AI Architects: AI Factories · Leadership 2 - Speaker(s): Safia Abdalla - Session type/status: session · confirmed - Track: AI Architects: AI Factories - Room: Leadership 2 - Session type: session - Status: confirmed ## Session Description At Warp, we’re building Oz to be the platform that enables people to be creative and build with cloud agents. That sounds simple, but only because the job of good developer tooling is to take on complexity before it reaches the user. The best tools fit into the way developers already think, then make accessible work that used to feel out of reach. This talk is about the engineering philosophy behind that work: how Warp’s evolution from terminal to local agent to Oz shaped the way we think about building for developers.
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- Safia Abdalla — Software Engineer at Warp.
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- Agent-Ready Accessibility — Designing for agents and designing for accessibility converge around explicit structure, reachable controls, and understandable state.
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