How I Stopped Being a Copy-Paster for My AI Agent: Claude Code, Google Cloud, and the Loop to Close

TL;DR: Your AI agent in Claude Code on the Web can use Google Cloud (or AWS/Azure) to store large datasets, run long computations, deploy web apps, and schedule recurring jobs. Once you have a cloud account and project, the repo-specific setup takes about five minutes: Set an encryption password in your environment settings (see Step 1 below). If you only use one cloud provider, name it…