diff --git a/src/node/cli.ts b/src/node/cli.ts
index deedf830..ed188f28 100644
--- a/src/node/cli.ts
+++ b/src/node/cli.ts
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ export interface Args extends VsArgs {
   readonly "reuse-window"?: boolean
   readonly "new-window"?: boolean
 
-  readonly "coder-bind"?: string
+  readonly "coder-bind"?: OptionalString
 }
 
 interface Option<T> {
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ const options: Options<Required<Args>> = {
   verbose: { type: "boolean", short: "vvv", description: "Enable verbose logging." },
 
   "coder-bind": {
-    type: "string",
+    type: OptionalString,
     description: `
       Securely bind code-server via Coder Cloud with the passed name. You'll get a URL like
       https://myname.coder-cloud.com at which you can easily access your code-server instance.
diff --git a/src/node/coder-cloud.ts b/src/node/coder-cloud.ts
index a3c3c590..b57cf36d 100644
--- a/src/node/coder-cloud.ts
+++ b/src/node/coder-cloud.ts
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ import split2 from "split2"
 
 const coderCloudAgent = path.resolve(__dirname, "../../lib/coder-cloud-agent")
 
-export async function coderCloudBind(serverName: string): Promise<void> {
-  const agent = spawn(coderCloudAgent, ["link", serverName], {
+function runAgent(...args: string[]): Promise<void> {
+  const agent = spawn(coderCloudAgent, args, {
     stdio: ["inherit", "inherit", "pipe"],
   })
 
@@ -30,43 +30,9 @@ export async function coderCloudBind(serverName: string): Promise<void> {
   })
 }
 
-export function coderCloudProxy(addr: string) {
+export function coderCloudBind(csAddr: string, serverName = ""): Promise<void> {
   // addr needs to be in host:port format.
   // So we trim the protocol.
-  addr = addr.replace(/^https?:\/\//, "")
-
-  const _proxy = async () => {
-    const agent = spawn(coderCloudAgent, ["proxy", "--code-server-addr", addr], {
-      stdio: ["inherit", "inherit", "pipe"],
-    })
-
-    agent.stderr.pipe(split2()).on("data", (line) => {
-      line = line.replace(/^[0-9-]+ [0-9:]+ [^ ]+\t/, "")
-      logger.info(line)
-    })
-
-    return new Promise((res, rej) => {
-      agent.on("error", rej)
-
-      agent.on("close", (code) => {
-        if (code !== 0) {
-          rej({
-            message: `coder cloud agent exited with ${code}`,
-          })
-          return
-        }
-        res()
-      })
-    })
-  }
-
-  const proxy = async () => {
-    try {
-      await _proxy()
-    } catch (err) {
-      logger.error(err.message)
-    }
-    setTimeout(proxy, 3000)
-  }
-  proxy()
+  csAddr = csAddr.replace(/^https?:\/\//, "")
+  return runAgent("bind", `--code-server-addr=${csAddr}`, serverName)
 }
diff --git a/src/node/entry.ts b/src/node/entry.ts
index 16118a1e..a39db7ef 100644
--- a/src/node/entry.ts
+++ b/src/node/entry.ts
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import { StaticHttpProvider } from "./app/static"
 import { UpdateHttpProvider } from "./app/update"
 import { VscodeHttpProvider } from "./app/vscode"
 import { Args, bindAddrFromAllSources, optionDescriptions, parse, readConfigFile, setDefaults } from "./cli"
-import { coderCloudBind, coderCloudProxy } from "./coder-cloud"
+import { coderCloudBind } from "./coder-cloud"
 import { AuthType, HttpServer, HttpServerOptions } from "./http"
 import { loadPlugins } from "./plugin"
 import { generateCertificate, hash, humanPath, open } from "./util"
@@ -143,11 +143,8 @@ const main = async (args: Args, cliArgs: Args, configArgs: Args): Promise<void>
   }
 
   if (args["coder-bind"]) {
-
     try {
-      logger.info(`binding code-server to the cloud with name ${args["coder-bind"]}`)
-      await coderCloudBind(args["coder-bind"])
-      coderCloudProxy(serverAddress!)
+      await coderCloudBind(serverAddress!, args["coder-bind"].value)
     } catch (err) {
       logger.error(err.message)
       ipcMain().exit(1)