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Sandbox primitives and systems-language control planes that own the agent loop
Power users are wiring K8s CRDs, WASM micro-runtimes, Rust fleet orchestrators, and modular Python harnesses into their own loops. Isolation and governance sit outside the model so you can clone, harden, and scale without closed IDEs.
01 — Power tools
The stack
- 01repoGitHubopen-harness (SDK)↗
MaxGfeller
Code-first composable SDK built on Vercel AI SDK for powerful AI agents with sessions, middleware, VFS providers, and React/Vue hooks.
Use caseUse it to wire Agent plus createFsTools and createBashTool for sandboxed file and shell access inside your own product UI.
sdkvercel-aicomposablevfs - 02toolGitHubagent-sandbox-os↗
dhanababum
Easy microVM sandboxes for AI agents and untrusted code on AWS Lambda MicroVMs with Python SDK, asb CLI, and MCP server.
Use caseUse it to boot a Firecracker sandbox in seconds, exec agent code, forward ports, and suspend/resume long sessions without managing clusters.
microvmlambdafirecrackermcp - 03repoGitHubserverless-runtime / agent-sandbox↗
vivek1504
Firecracker microVM sandboxing for AI agents with millisecond boots from snapshots, full network, and native MCP support.
Use caseUse it to give each agent session a dedicated hardware-isolated Linux machine that restores in under 100 ms end-to-end.
firecrackermicrovmmcpsnapshot - 04toolGitHubagent_sandbox (HPC)↗
katosh
Kernel-enforced credential and network jail for untrusted Linux processes with Slurm awareness and built-in agent profiles.
Use caseUse it to wrap coding agents on HPC login nodes so sbatch and credentials stay sandboxed without containers.
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02 — In the wild
Articles and releases
- releaseDocker DocsDocker Agentic Platform experimental public release↗
Docker
September 24 2026 marks the experimental public release with a Kits catalog, Hermes and Antigravity curated kits, credential controls, custom secrets, and improved sandbox provisioning progress. Launcher now reuses saved keys and supports platform selection plus restart timers.
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- articleHacker NewsObservability-driven harnesses for building with agents↗
Datadog
Engineering writeup on building agent harnesses around observability so traces, metrics, and feedback loops become first-class controls rather than afterthoughts. Argues that production reliability comes from instrumented runtimes that surface tool failures and context bloat early.
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