AI product
boat is a cloud sandbox platform providing persistent Ubuntu virtual machines for AI agents and development workflows. Sandboxes support SSH and SCP, Docker, systemd, databases, cron, browser-based virtual desktops, dedicated IPv4 or IPv6 addresses, and preinstalled tools including VS Code, Chrome, the GitHub CLI, Rust, Node.js, and Bun.
The boat CLI and HTTP API can create, inspect, connect to, prompt, stop, and resume sandboxes. A sandbox can be saved as a snapshot and rapidly forked into parallel machines, allowing prepared build environments to be cloned for multiple agents; the platform also provides Python and TypeScript SDKs and JSON output for shell integrations. Sandboxes are billed per second while running, with a seven-day trial and plans starting at $20 per month; the service currently offers EU regions and self-serve accounts supporting 100 to 2,000 active sandboxes.
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On-demand disposable VMs for agents: spin up sandboxes via CLI, SSH in, snapshot a prepared build environment and clone it for parallel agents, kill boxes when done. Turned build gate waits from 40-70 minutes to a few minutes.
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