Coding agents on their own machines
Blog post from Boxd
Boxd provides dedicated persistent virtual machines for coding agents, addressing the resource contention, broad local-file access, and session loss associated with running agents on a personal laptop. Each machine includes Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode, along with agent-specific instruction files that explain the preconfigured environment, networking, proxy, machine-management commands, and cleanup procedures while allowing repository-level instructions to add project conventions. The pre-authenticated in-VM CLI lets agents create machines, execute commands, and expose ports, while Claude Code credentials can automatically carry to newly created machines, forks, and snapshots; Codex and OpenCode support credential inheritance for forks but currently require login on fresh machines. Agents can be run interactively or delegated through commands from a laptop, with session state persisting on the machine’s disk across disconnects and reboots. Long-running Claude sessions can remain active through tmux and be accessed remotely through Claude applications or a shell, although unattended work may require disabling auto-hibernation. Because each Boxd machine is a full Linux VM capable of running Docker, daemons, system packages, and other server workloads, it can support broader autonomous development tasks and can be expanded into multi-agent workflows across separate machines.
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