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I was trying to build an agent. None of the sandboxes out there had solved the filesystem problem. I want my agent to have a persistent storage, and that stays forever. Like a human with a computer. When the agent spins up again, it has access to the computer with the same files.

I had to create my own setup using aws s3 filesystem and docker for this.

Does Tilde solve for this?

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Hey, this is exactly what we do at https://instavm.io Agents get persistent storage that outlive the sandbox and when the agent spins up again you get access to the computer with same files.

Snapshotting a filesystem is trivial with e.g. btrfs. You can hook snapshot creation in your agent.

That is a single one liner of btrfs subvolume snapshot, in a single hook configuration file, ready to be valued at $10B as quantum agentic versioned sandbox startup.

Part of the appeal (subjective, I know) of versioning is stuff like human-in-the-loop approvals. Think of a pull request: a change is requested by an agent, a human approves, changes get merged atomically. Even if other changes were applied since creation.

This is something solved by a bunch of new sandboxes including ours - SmolVM

https://github.com/CelestoAI/smolVM

Nanoclaw mounts each agent's folder to the ephemeral container.

Isn't that like working on a codebase with an agent?

Agent Sandboxes is the official k8s solution for this.

just get a $5 VPS or hetzner and you are good.

infosec would like a word...

which is the bare minimum that I hope people are doing , nothing about trusting a third party is any less or more secure.

Just run it on your GitHub actions minutes

Exactly that!

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