Self-Hosting: Keep Your AI Agent's Data on Your Own Servers
Once AI Agents start taking on real engineering work, one question becomes harder and harder to avoid:
Where do your code, your sessions, and your prompts actually live?
When the Agent only writes a snippet once in a while, the answer doesn't matter. But when it works for hours at a time, reads and writes your real codebase, and remembers your project conventions and preferences, "data sovereignty" stops being compliance jargon and becomes a daily concern for every developer.
Self-hosting isn't paranoia about the cloud. It's the plain requirement that my data should be controlled by me.
Helix's position has always been direct: Agents run on your machines, and the way you connect is determined by your scenario. Today I want to talk about the three paths that make this real: direct connection, self-hosted tunnels, and VPN networking.