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Show HN: AgentBox – SDK to Run Claude Code, Codex, or OpenCode in Any Sandbox(github.com)
8 points by willydouhard 5mo ago|0 comments
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Got it! Yes this is definitely doable, added in the roadmap. We will embed the roadmap in the readme soon.
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
We see developers build their own setup over SSH with success, so in that sense I agree with you. However, once you want to trigger tasks from Slack, Linear, or GitHub issues or onboard teammates who aren't comfortable wiring up LXC +
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Definitely the same category of product. The main difference with cursor is that we reuse raw harnesses from ai-labs (claude code, codex). Cursor rebuilds its own harness. We believe nothing will beat the "natural" harness of each
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
By default each plan has a limit ( https://twill.ai/pricing ). Then you can manually set an overage limit if you want to. The ralph loop mode also has the concept of a budget per task.
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
The main difference is that you can pick/combine coding agent CLIs (claude code, codex, open code). There is no vendor lock-in.
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
This definitely feels like the end state. We need to improve models, agent/human UX and make the transition from cloud work to local work seemless to fully get there
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Yes or when you get good feedback/idea talking to someone, being able to spawn tasks from your phone makes everything much faster
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
We still need to get an oauth token to connect to GitHub. We started with the GitHub mcp but migrated to giving the gh cli to the agent directly. One learning we had is that most of the time CLI > MCP
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
There is room for plan adaptation but the agent has to justify and highlight it in the PR. Defining the plan/acceptance criteria for long running task is the hard part. We recently added a Ralph loop mode in that spirit. The implementa
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
This is very convenient but has limitations. GitHub actions are not built to resume state (conversations in our case) and handle multi player experiences. However reusing the GitHub workflows out of the box feels really nice
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
this is great, thanks for sharing
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Let us know how it goes!
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Thank you for the feedback, we are working on it!
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
We already support computer use out of the box (linux sandboxes). Self hosted runners are not available yet, but Twill is built on a runtime agnostic layer (see https://github.com/TwillAI/agentbox-sdk ) so it is feasibl
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
I believe there is a difference between an open source framework and a product. You would still have to manage and scale your infra, build the integration layer around it to make it accessible where your teams are, fix bugs etc... I am not
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Cowork does not seem to be focused on engineering, but we are fully expecting Anthropic to catch up in this category. What Anthropic can't offer is to let you use Codex or combine it with Claude Code. That is why we think non ai-labs p
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
I agree and that is why I think monorepos are making a comeback. That said, there are workarounds, like cloning all repos and enabling LSP (coding CLIs added that feature) or using a dedicated solution for codebase indexing and add a skill&
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Yes, for instance Twill is running a local postgres and redis directly in the sandbox using docker compose when running on our codebase. This is what enables Twill to self verify its work before opening a PR
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Thank you! agentbox-sdk is very recent so it is not stable just yet indeed! For the lightweight sandbox, can you give an example? Currently we support main coding CLIs, ACP support is not shipped yet.
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Yes, the difference is that Twill launches dedicated infra on each sandbox for each task. This means you can work on multiple tasks requiring a DB migration for instance. Also you can fire and forget tasks (my favorite) and don't have
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Anthropic recently killed the ability for third parties to use the Claude Code subscription, and it's assumed they're subsidising that price heavily. Which is fine, but it's a good reminder of the vendor lock-in risk. One pol
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by willydouhard 5mo ago
Willy from Twill here. I love the idea of emailing agents like we email humans! Thank you for sharing your learnings: 1. Network constraints vary quite a bit from one enterprise customer to another, so right now this is something we handl
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by willydouhard 2y ago
This looks great! Any plan to support other languages like bicep?