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by monomial 140 days ago
Is this a common pattern to have an agent request a sandbox? I feel like I'd want the whole agent running in it's own sandbox to begin with. Firecracker does look like a decent solution for that.
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When I started to design the system, I thought of creating a way for an agent on the cloud to have access to a filesystem, such that they can read, write files and run commands. I can't really say that the startups in the space's main source of income is this, most of them rely on sdks for other platforms. I could adjust the core to work as a sdk as well, but right now the main interface is just a mcp server that a client can use
I agree. I'm testing https://sprites.dev/ because of that.
Is firecracker instead of a docker container worth the hassle?
Probably not. Maybe Bubblewrap and sandbox-run. It's an anything-is-already-way-better-than-nothing type of thing.

[0]: https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap

[1]: https://github.com/sandbox-utils/sandbox-run