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Workers for Platforms

Definition

Workers for Platforms is Cloudflare's offering for deploying Workers at scale on behalf of many users — the model behind platforms where customers/employees prototype and deploy their own applications. Every deployed Worker lives inside a namespace, and all traffic to that namespace flows through a single entry point: the dispatch Worker. The dispatch Worker routes incoming requests to the correct user Worker within its namespace. (Source: sources/2026-08-14-cloudflare-secure-all-your-internal-vibe-coded-applications-in-one-click)

Dispatch Worker as a policy choke point

Because all namespace traffic passes through the dispatch Worker, it is a natural single control point. Setting a Cloudflare Access policy on the dispatch Worker makes every Worker deployed through it private by default — the platform operator configures auth once and inherits it across all tenant deployments (patterns/central-proxy-choke-point, account-wide-default-policy). Cloudflare open-sourced an internal-sites-template example: a drag-and-drop internal static-site platform where every site deployed through the dispatcher is private by default.

Seen in

• sources/2026-08-14-cloudflare-secure-all-your-internal-vibe-coded-applications-in-one-click — dispatch Worker as the choke point for enforcing private-by-default on every tenant Worker in a namespace.
• sources/2026-09-28-cloudflare-emdash-10-the-stable-cms-with-a-secure-plugin-registry — Workers for Platforms as the substrate for a CMS website platform. EmDash 1.0 is designed so hosting companies can "run each customer's site as a Worker on Cloudflare's global network" without provisioning per-site servers or building the surrounding networking/deployment infra — EmDash supplies the content layer (admin / API / CLI / MCP-fronting agent). The sandboxed plugin model lets platforms offer extensions across many customer sites safely and run their own marketplaces; EmDash Build deploys published sites into "the host's Workers for Platforms namespace."

Related

• companies/cloudflare
• systems/cloudflare-workers — the unit deployed inside namespaces
• systems/cloudflare-access — policy attached to the dispatch Worker
• systems/emdash — CMS that runs each customer site as a Worker via Workers for Platforms
• patterns/central-proxy-choke-point — dispatch Worker as single enforcement point
• account-wide-default-policy — private-by-default across all tenants