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Workspaces

Create, run and manage workspaces: IDEs running in their own containers.

Access it as client.workspaces on a Strongly client, or the same path on AsyncStrongly with await. All methods exist on both with identical signatures.

Quick start​

from strongly import Strongly

client = Strongly()

# List (auto-paginates as you iterate)  # filters: search, status, project_id, sort
for workspace in client.workspaces.list():
    print(workspace.id)

Methods​

Core​

list​

list(*, search: str | None = None, status: str | None = None, project_id: str | None = None, sort: str | None = None, limit: int | None = None) -> SyncPaginator[Workspace]

List the workspaces you can use, newest first.

Parameters

  • search (str | None, optional): Only workspaces whose name or description contains this text (case insensitive).
  • status (str | None, optional): Only workspaces with this status, such as "running".
  • project_id (str | None, optional): Only the workspaces of this project.
  • sort (str | None, optional): The order, as comma-separated wire field names, each prefixed with - for descending (for example "name"). The API's default is "-createdAt".
  • limit (int | None, optional): The most workspaces to return; None returns every one.

Returns

  • SyncPaginator[Workspace]: The workspaces, fetched a page at a time.

create​

create(*, name: str, description: str, environment_type: str, environment_id: str | None = None, environment_version: int | None = None, custom_resources: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None, workspace_volume_size: str | None = None, project_id: str | None = None, use_spot_instances: bool | None = None, environment_variables: Mapping[str, str] | None = None, addons: Sequence[str] | None = None, data_sources: Sequence[str] | None = None, ai_gateways: Sequence[str] | None = None, workflows: Sequence[str] | None = None, skill_ids: Sequence[str] | None = None, shared_volume_ids: Sequence[str] | None = None, coding_assistants: Sequence[str] | None = None, code_session_enabled: bool | None = None, custom_port: int | None = None, proxy_headers: Sequence[Mapping[str, str]] | None = None, cluster: Mapping[str, Any] | None = None) -> CreatedWorkspace

Create a workspace, stopped. Start it with start.

The workspace runs at exactly the size you set and none is assumed: give environment_id (a saved environment supplies the image and size) or custom_resources.

Parameters

  • name (str): The workspace's name.
  • description (str): What the workspace is for.
  • environment_type (str): The IDE: "jupyter", "vscode", "rstudio" or "custom" (the environment image runs its own IDE on custom_port).
  • environment_id (str | None, optional): A saved environment (image and size).
  • environment_version (int | None, optional): A version of that environment. The API's default is the latest.
  • custom_resources (Mapping[str, Any] | None, optional): The size when no environment is chosen, such as {"cpu": "2", "memory": "8GB", "disk": "20GB"} (optionally "gpu" and "gpu_type"); disk is scratch space. At least 0.1 CPU and 128MB of memory.
  • workspace_volume_size (str | None, optional): The size of the persistent /workspace volume, such as "40GB". The API's default is "20GB".
  • project_id (str | None, optional): The project the workspace belongs to; it mounts the project's volume. The API's default creates a project named after the workspace.
  • use_spot_instances (bool | None, optional): True runs the workspace on spot capacity (cheaper, may be reclaimed).
  • environment_variables (Mapping[str, str] | None, optional): Environment variables for the container.
  • addons (Sequence[str] | None, optional): Add-on ids to attach (delivered in STRONGLY_SERVICES).
  • data_sources (Sequence[str] | None, optional): Data source ids to attach (delivered in STRONGLY_DATA_SOURCES).
  • ai_gateways (Sequence[str] | None, optional): AI model ids to make available.
  • workflows (Sequence[str] | None, optional): Workflow ids to make available.
  • skill_ids (Sequence[str] | None, optional): Skill ids to install in the workspace.
  • shared_volume_ids (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The shared volumes to mount at /volumes/shared/<name>; none unless listed (the project's volume always mounts). A volume you may not mount is refused, by name.
  • coding_assistants (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The coding assistant to install: at most one of "claude-code", "codex" and "opencode" (not for RStudio or a custom IDE).
  • code_session_enabled (bool | None, optional): True adds a terminal an agent can drive.
  • custom_port (int | None, optional): For a custom IDE: the port it serves on. The API's default is 8888.
  • proxy_headers (Sequence[Mapping[str, str]] | None, optional): For a custom IDE: headers the proxy forwards to it, each {"name": ..., "value": ...}; values may use ${BASE_PATH}, ${ORIGIN}, ${PATH} and ${REQUEST_URI}.
  • cluster (Mapping[str, Any] | None, optional): A Ray, Dask or Spark cluster to attach, such as &#123;"engine": "ray", "coordinator": &#123;"cpu": "2", "memory": "4GB"&#125;, "worker": &#123;"cpu": "2", "memory": "4GB"&#125;, "workers": 2&#125;.

Returns

  • CreatedWorkspace: The new workspace's id; read it with retrieve.

Raises

  • ValidationError: A required field is missing, or no size was given.
  • NotFoundError: The project or environment does not exist.
  • PermissionDeniedError: You may not add workspaces to the project.
  • ConflictError: No project_id was given and a project or volume already has the workspace's name (error_code duplicate).

retrieve​

retrieve(workspace_id: str) -> Workspace

Retrieve a workspace you can use.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Returns

  • Workspace: The workspace.

Raises

  • NotFoundError: There is no such workspace, or you cannot use it.

update​

update(workspace_id: str, *, name: str | None = None, description: str | None = None, environment_variables: Mapping[str, str] | None = None, addons: Sequence[str] | None = None, data_sources: Sequence[str] | None = None, ai_gateways: Sequence[str] | None = None, workflows: Sequence[str] | None = None, shared_volume_ids: Sequence[str] | None = None) -> None

Change a workspace's name, description, services or environment variables.

Only the fields you give change; read the result back with retrieve. The size, image, IDE and environment are fixed at create. Services apply at the next start or restart.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.
  • name (str | None, optional): The workspace's name.
  • description (str | None, optional): Its description.
  • environment_variables (Mapping[str, str] | None, optional): Environment variables, replacing the current set. Only before the first start, or while the workspace is in error.
  • addons (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The add-on ids it selects, replacing the list.
  • data_sources (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The data source ids it selects, replacing the list.
  • ai_gateways (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The AI model ids it selects, replacing the list.
  • workflows (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The workflow ids it selects, replacing the list.
  • shared_volume_ids (Sequence[str] | None, optional): The shared volumes it mounts at /volumes/shared/<name> from its next start or restart, replacing the list ([] for none).

Raises

  • NotFoundError: There is no such workspace, or you may not change it.
  • ConflictError: environment_variables on a deployed workspace (error_code invalid-state).
  • ValidationError: A value is invalid (a blank name, a repeated id).

delete​

delete(workspace_id: str) -> None

Delete a workspace.

The workspace moves to pending_delete and is removed once its container is gone.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Raises

  • NotFoundError: There is no such workspace.
  • PermissionDeniedError: You may not delete it.

Lifecycle & actions​

start​

start(workspace_id: str) -> WorkspaceAction

Start a workspace.

Returns as soon as the start is accepted; the status moves through deploying and starting to running (or error). Poll retrieve or status. Starting a running or starting workspace changes nothing.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Returns

  • WorkspaceAction: What happened, in message.

Raises

  • NotFoundError: There is no such workspace, or you may not start it.
  • PaymentRequiredError: A budget or the organization's credits refuse the start.
  • PermissionDeniedError: A governance policy blocks the workspace.

stop​

stop(workspace_id: str) -> WorkspaceAction

Stop a workspace. Its volumes keep their data.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Returns

  • WorkspaceAction: What happened, in message; the status is then stopped.

Raises

  • NotFoundError: There is no such workspace.

restart​

restart(workspace_id: str) -> None

Restart a started workspace, redeploying it (its owner only).

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Raises

  • UnprocessableEntityError: The workspace has never been started (use start).
  • PermissionDeniedError: You are not the workspace's owner.

Other​

logs​

logs(workspace_id: str, *, type: str | None = None) -> list[WorkspaceLogEntry]

Return a workspace's latest log lines (up to 100).

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.
  • type (str | None, optional): Which logs: "pod" (the IDE's own runtime log, the API's default), "build" or "deploy".

Returns

  • list[WorkspaceLogEntry]: The log lines.

metrics​

metrics(workspace_id: str) -> WorkspaceMetrics

Measure a running workspace now (about 6 seconds).

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Returns

  • WorkspaceMetrics: CPU and memory against its size, disk, network, GPU, IDE response time, and every container's usage.

Raises

  • ConflictError: The workspace is not running (error_code invalid-state).

status​

status(workspace_id: str) -> WorkspaceStatus

Ask the cluster for a workspace's status now.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Returns

  • WorkspaceStatus: The status, the IDE's path and any error.

Raises

  • NotFoundError: There is no such workspace.

sync​

sync(workspace_id: str) -> WorkspaceSync

Save a running workspace's work to its volumes (its owner only).

The project volume's code is committed and pushed (a shared volume's code is read-only and never pushed), and each data file changed in a volume the owner may write is saved as a new version of that file. Unsynced work survives stop, start and restart; only deleting the workspace loses it.

Parameters

  • workspace_id (str): The workspace's id.

Returns

  • WorkspaceSync: Each volume's sync report.

Raises

  • PermissionDeniedError: You are not the workspace's owner.