> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://ona.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview

> The platform for background agents.

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Ona is the platform for background agents. Run a team of AI software engineers in the cloud, orchestrated, governed, and secured at the kernel.

Get started in less than 5 minutes on [Ona Cloud](/ona/runners/ona-cloud), or run Ona in your own VPC on [AWS](/ona/runners/aws/overview) or [GCP](/ona/runners/gcp/overview). Start a single interactive session, or run fleets of agents in the background on a schedule, on pull request events, or from your issue tracker.

Here's what you can do with Ona:

* **Create reproducible environments**: Define your dev setup as code with [Dev Containers](/ona/configuration/devcontainer/overview) and [Automations](/ona/automations/overview), so every environment starts identically. No "works on my machine" problems
* **Write code**: Describe what you want to build, and Ona will implement it. Bring your configuration from Claude Code or Cursor, or add an [AGENTS.md](/ona/agents-md) and [skills](/ona/agents/skills) to make Ona even more productive
* **Automate software development**: Assign issues to Ona in [Linear](/ona/integrations/configure-linear) or trigger agents on [pull request events](/ona/automations/triggers/pullrequest). Anything your engineering team can do, Ona can do it too
* **Integrate with your stack**: Connect [source control](/ona/source-control/overview), [IDEs](/ona/editors/overview), and tools like [Jira](/ona/integrations/configure-atlassian) and [Notion](/ona/integrations/configure-notion)
* **Govern at scale**: Enforce policies, audit changes, and control agent execution with [guardrails](/ona/guardrails/overview)
* **Secure by design**: Ephemeral, isolated environments with [SSO](/ona/sso/overview), [OIDC](/ona/configuration/oidc), and SCIM built in

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      <div className="overview-card-desc">Try it on your code.</div>
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      <div className="overview-card-title">Set up Ona for my team</div>
      <div className="overview-card-desc">Create a project, configure Dev Containers, and connect editors and source control.</div>
      <div className="overview-card-link">Learn more →</div>
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      <div className="overview-card-title">Run agents in the background</div>
      <div className="overview-card-desc">Set up automations triggered by PRs, schedules, or webhooks.</div>
      <div className="overview-card-link">Learn more →</div>
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      <div className="overview-card-title">Manage your organization</div>
      <div className="overview-card-desc">Configure SSO, policies, audit logs, and runner infrastructure.</div>
      <div className="overview-card-link">Learn more →</div>
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      <div className="overview-card-title">Teach agents your codebase</div>
      <div className="overview-card-desc">Add an AGENTS.md so Ona knows your conventions, commands, and architecture.</div>
      <div className="overview-card-link">Learn more →</div>
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      <div className="overview-card-title">Add an Ona badge</div>
      <div className="overview-card-desc">Give contributors a one-click button to open your project in Ona.</div>
      <div className="overview-card-link">Learn more →</div>
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