boxd 101
One platform for your developers and your agents.
Engineering teams use boxd to eliminate environment setup, run AI agents on real infrastructure, and ship faster.
The problem
Environments are a tax on velocity.
Every new hire, new branch, new experiment costs engineering time. Creating an environment is expensive and the cost compounds invisibly.
Your agents are limited by your infrastructure.
AI agents need a real environment to be useful. Your full stack running, packages to install, tests against real databases. Most infrastructure wasn't built for autonomous workloads.
Your isolation doesn't match your risk.
You're running code from AI models, from new hires, maybe from users. With agents executing arbitrary code, you need kernel-level boundaries. Not container namespaces.
The solution
A real computer. For every developer and every agent.
Most infrastructure makes you choose: fast but shared (containers), or isolated but slow (VMs). boxd is both. A full Linux machine with its own kernel that boots in 50ms.
Own kernel, own memory, own network.
State survives across sessions. Nothing is thrown away.
Fork any machine in milliseconds. Same state, independent from that point on.
Your datacenter. Your cloud. Your country.
Three ways in
No install needed.
Your SSH key is your identity. Create machines, run commands, copy files. Works with VS Code Remote, rsync, SCP.
Local or inside a VM.
Install the boxd CLI locally, or use it pre-installed inside every VM. JSON output for scripting. Auth is automatic inside VMs.
Every VM gets a URL.
TLS terminated automatically. Any port reachable via public URL. Subdomain proxies for multiple services. WebSocket built in.
What makes it different
Fastest in the category.
50ms cold boot. 10ms pause/resume. Copy-on-write forking at the VM level. Fork a machine for a new hire, a branch, or an agent. No other platform is this fast with real VM isolation.
A new primitive: the serverless container.
We built our VMM from the ground up. Not a wrapper around Firecracker or QEMU. Every machine runs its own kernel via KVM. The speed of a container, the isolation of a VM.
🇪🇺 European hosted.
All infrastructure runs in EU data centers. Self-hostable when you need full control. Single binary, zero dependencies. Your data stays where you put it.
Dive deeper
read the docs · ssh boxd.sh