alt Hacker NewsFor those looking to run agents: the short lifecycle of the typical “sandbox” seems surprisingly limiting to me. I have no actual workflow where I want one of these products. Sometimes a VM can live for 30 minutes, but it also might need to live for a month, and I don’t know beforehand.
This is why I have been avoiding the word sandbox for exe.dev. I don’t think developers agents need something “sandbox” shaped.
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I'm a relatively basic claude code user, basically just running a few instances in different terminal tabs and monitoring them pretty closely, but I could definitely see value in being able to dump a bunch of code and tools into a workspace where there's no credentials present and just set an agent some goals to research or try a bunch of things in a mostly unsupervised manner.
Yeah I have some stuff which is supposed to be “there” for months with the agents continually moving it forward. Not to mention the need to run different software. Running local VMs for now.
stop-on-idle + wake-on-HTTP https://github.com/tastyeffectco/sandboxd/
Checkout https://shellbox.dev for exactly thisnusecase: boxes can be stopped, they are snapshotted to disk then cost just $0.5/month. They wakeup with the same state (memory and processes too) on ssh connections, or web endpoint activity, or just just a cron schedule. When you dont need the box... Just delete it and stop paying. No subscription, managed via ssh