{
  "id": 11518018,
  "title": "Cloudflare Launched Clef. Let's Build a Tiny Decision Gate in TypeScript.",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/02/cloudflare-launched-clef-lets-build-a-tiny-decision-gate-in-typescript",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-02T20:21:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/bobbyhalljr/cloudflare-launched-clef-lets-build-a-tiny-decision-gate-in-typescript-can"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On September 30, Cloudflare published OpenAI Launched Dots, which built a tiny always-on agent with three rules: Allow, Ask, and Deny. On October 1, Cloudflare released Clef, a model whose sole purpose is decision-making. Clef and Clef-flash, the first models trained by the Workers AI team, are decision models that accept a state and a set of typed questions, returning a probability for every allowed answer. Clef is a 27B model post-trained on a frozen Qwen3.8-27B, while Clef-flash has 9B parameters, post-trained on Qwen3.5-9B. Weights are Apache 2.0 and available on Hugging Face.",
  "summary": "On September 30 I published OpenAI Launched Dots and built a tiny always-on agent. That agent has rules. Allow. Ask. Deny. The rules are still handwritten. On October 1, Cloudflare shipped a model whose whole job is the decision. Clef. On October 1, Cloudflare released Clef and Clef-flash , the first models trained by the Workers AI team. They are decision models. You pass a state and a set of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}