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AlexFromTwelve

Show HN: Setup a box on demand and run your agent on it remotely

https://www.gibil.dev/

AI agents sometimes need a real VM with discoverable filesystem, bash, Docker, the usual. I built a dev tool so spinning one up and killing it can be easily automated, even by someone who doesn't know much about infra.Looking for feedback from anyone who'd offload work off their laptop, or whose agent tasks temporarily need a VM.

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Fair, if you're running one-off prompts, you don't need this. The real use case is longer agent tasks where you don't want rm -rf, a runaway loop, or pnpm install on some random repo touching your laptop. VM spins up, agent works, VM gets destroyed. Same reason people already sandbox in Docker/Codespaces, this just collapses create → run → destroy into one command.