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by binary132 15 days ago
He described a separate machine where the execution and context would be hosted, not local sandboxes. Did I misunderstand how Gondolin works?
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> Gondolin gives you that. Lightweight micro-VMs (QEMU by default, optional libkrun backend) boot in under a second on your Mac or Linux machine. The network stack and virtual filesystem are implemented entirely in JavaScript, giving you complete programmatic control over what the sandbox can access and what secrets it can use.
> The network stack and virtual filesystem are implemented entirely in JavaScript

This is slightly insane

I suppose it will be slow too if the agent needs to grep over megabytes of data