Enable Nx Cloud distributed task execution and remote caching with Nx Agents
domain: nx.dev · 6 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Connect the workspace to Nx Cloud by running npx nx connect; this creates an nxCloudAccessToken in nx.json and registers the workspace with cloud.nx.app
In your CI configuration, replace your existing build/test commands with npx nx-cloud start-ci-run --distribute-on='3 linux-medium-js' before your affected commands, then call npx nx-cloud stop-all-agents at the end
Run tasks with npx nx affected -t build test lint --base=origin/main so Nx Cloud knows which projects need work; the orchestrator distributes these tasks across the agent machines
Agent machines in CI must have the same nxCloudAccessToken available as an environment variable; set NX_CLOUD_ACCESS_TOKEN as a CI secret to override the value in nx.json for security
Configure end-to-end encryption by setting NX_CLOUD_ENCRYPTION_KEY to a random secret shared by all CI machines; Nx Cloud then cannot read your artifact contents at rest
View run details, cache hit rates, and task timing on cloud.nx.app to identify bottleneck tasks worth optimizing
Known gotchas
Distributed task execution requires tasks to have correct project graph dependencies declared; a missing dependency edge can cause a task to execute before its prerequisite finishes on a different agent
Nx Agents are charged per minute of agent compute on Nx Cloud's managed infrastructure; estimate costs before setting a high agent count on large monorepos
The nxCloudAccessToken in nx.json is not a secret — it identifies the workspace but does not grant write access; however, use NX_CLOUD_ACCESS_TOKEN in CI to avoid committing the token to version-controlled config
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