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agentbox-sdk
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TwillAI / agentbox-sdk

agentbox-sdk

The open-source TypeScript SDK for running AI coding agents in sandboxes. One unified API — swap agents and infrastructure providers without changing your code.

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3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
166GitHub stars
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What it is

The open-source TypeScript SDK for running AI coding agents in sandboxes. One unified API — swap agents and infrastructure providers without changing your code.

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2026-04-10 16:22:13 UTC to 2026-04-23 15:19:20 UTC.

0122026-04-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-11 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 commentsApr 102026-04-11 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-14 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-14 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-16 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-16 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsApr 162026-04-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-18 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-18 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-21 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-04-23 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsApr 23

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What Hacker News says

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Show HN: AgentBox – SDK to Run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in Any Sandbox

Hi HN, AgentBox is an SDK for running coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode) inside sandboxes (Docker, E2B, Modal, Daytona, Vercel). One API. Swap the agent or the sandbox and your code doesn't change. Think of it as what the AI SDK did for LLMs, but for agent + runtime. Most wrappers call agents in non interactive mode (claude --print, codex exec). AgentBox instead boots each agent's native server inside the sandbox (Codex app-server over JSON-RPC, OpenCode serve over HTTP/SSE, Claude Code's SDK WebSocket transport) and drives it from the host, behaving like an interactive session. Live demo: https://agentbox-demo-175164121374.us-west1.run.app Feedback welcome, especially on the abstractions and which providers to add next!
8 points · Open discussion
danoandco·Apr 10, 2026Submission

Launch HN: Twill.ai (YC S25) – Delegate to cloud agents, get back PRs

Hey HN, we're Willy and Dan, co-founders of Twill.ai (https://twill.ai/). Twill runs coding CLIs like Claude Code and Codex in isolated cloud sandboxes. You hand it work through Slack, GitHub, Linear, our web app or CLI, and it comes back with a PR, a review, a diagnosis, or a follow-up question. It loops you in when it needs your input, so you stay in control. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyfTMXVECbs Before Twill, building with Claude Code locally, we kept hitting three walls 1. Parallelization: two tasks that both touch your Docker config or the same infra files are painful to run locally at once, and manual port rebinding and separate build contexts don't scale past a couple of tasks. 2. Persistence: close your laptop and the agent stops. We wanted to kick off a batch of tasks before bed and wake up to PRs. 3. Trust: giving a
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n autonomous agent full access to your local filesystem and processes is a leap, and a sandbox per task felt safer to run unattended. All three pointed to the same answer: move the agents to the cloud, give each task its own isolated environment. So we built what we wanted. The first version was pure delegation: describe a task, get back a PR. Then multiplayer, so the whole team can talk to the same agent, each in their own thread. Then memory, so "use the existing logger in lib/log.ts, never console.log" becomes a standing instruction on every future task. Then automation: crons for recurring work, event triggers for things like broken CI. This space is crowded. AI labs ship their own coding products (Claude Code, Codex), local IDEs wrap models in your editor, and a wave of startups build custom cloud agents on bespoke harnesses. We take the following path: reuse the lab-native CLIs in cloud sandboxes. Labs will keep pouring RL into their own harnesses, so they only get better over time. That way, no vendor lock-in, and you can pick a different CLI per task or combine them. When you give Twill a task, it spins up a dedicated sandbox, clones your repo, installs dependencies, and invokes the CLI you chose. Each task gets its own filesystem, ports, and process isolation. Secrets are injected at runtime through environment variables. After a task finishes, Twill snapshots the sandbox filesystem so the next run on the same repo starts warm with dependencies already installed. We chose this architecture because every time the labs ship an improvement to their coding harness, Twill picks up the improvement automatically. We’re also open-sourcing agentbox-sdk, https://github.com/TwillAI/agentbox-sdk, an SDK for running and interacting with agent CLIs across sandbox providers. Here’s an example: a three-person team assigned Twill to a Linear backlog ticket about adding a CSV import feature to their Rails app. Twill cloned the repo, set up the dev environment, implemented the feature, ran the test suite, took screenshots and attached them to the PR. The PR needed one round of revision, which they requested through Github. For more complex tasks, Twill asks clarifying questions before writing code and records a browser session video (using Vercel's Webreel) as proof of work. Free tier: 10 credits per month (1 credit = $1 of AI compute at cost, no markup), no credit card. Paid plans start at $50/month for 50 credits, with BYOK support on higher tiers. Free pro tier for open-source projects. We’d love to hear how cloud coding agents fit into your workflow today, and if you try Twill, what worked, what broke, and what’s still missing.
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