boxd 101
Blog post from Boxd
Billions of Machines presents boxd as a cloud platform built around fast, isolated KVM virtual machines that provide persistent storage, root access, preinstalled development tools, immediate HTTPS URLs, and near-instant startup. It is designed for agent-driven development by letting coding agents work directly on the same machine that runs and exposes an application, allowing changes to be reviewed live without a separate deployment step. Users can fork running machines, including their memory and processes, to support parallel tasks; create reusable snapshots for prepared environments; and use checkpoints to restore a machine after risky changes. Machines automatically sleep without traffic while retaining their state and can wake almost instantly, reducing idle costs. The platform also supports terminal and SSH access, secure sharing, APIs and machine-to-machine orchestration, custom networking and domains, and workflows ranging from preview environments and sandboxes to agent swarms, per-user machines, and reproducible AI training environments.
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