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smol-machines/smolvm

An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.

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How fast smol-machines/smolvm is gaining stars, and where it lands on Trendshift and GitHub Trending

Activity and trending

Stars, forks and merged pull requests each day or month, lined up with the repository's rank on Trendshift Trending

Sep 5 – Nov 4, 2026

Stars +1,015 in 61 days

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Forks +74 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 721 in 61 days

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Trendshift Trendingwhere the repository ranked each day it made the top 25

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    • GitHub trending history

    Where the repository ranked on GitHub Trending, one dot for each day it was on a list

    Rust

    Sep 20 – Sep 22, 2026Best #14

    #1#5#10#15#20#25
    Top 10
    Sep 20, 2026Sep 22, 2026
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    Where people are talking about smol-machines/smolvm, and every badge it has earned
    1. Oct 111 post

      • Let an agent experiment — without letting it touch your host smolvm is an open-source runtime for lightweight, branchable virtual machines built for AI agents, portable dev environments, and local…

        Read full on X, posted by @DanKornas

        @DanKornas · x.com

    2. Oct 61 post

      • mr fazio trolls a lot, but this is actually a problem that needs a real solution and could print or at least show competency in a job situation it is telling that nerds scream “just use cloud”…

        Read full on X, posted by @tunahorse21

        @tunahorse21 · x.com

    3. Oct 51 post

      • Embedding AI agents safely with #smolvm – branchable microVMs for portable dev environments. See link below 👇

        Read full on X, posted by @RepoGems

        @RepoGems · x.com

    4. 23 days earlier
    5. Sep 121 post

      • Here's a quick visualization of how smol machines does forking vs firecracker: - Firecracker restores each clone from a snapshot, so each is a full copy of guest RAM. vs - smolvm branches the running…

        Read full on X, posted by @binsquares

        @binsquares · x.com

    6. Sep 61 post

      • 轻量级虚机

        Read full on X, posted by @xidianwlc

        @xidianwlc · x.com

    7. 16 days earlier
    8. Aug 211 post

      • 今天想在 wondows试下这个跨平台的容器虚拟机，结果发现一直报错，拿 codex 诊断下，发现是一个依赖库的问题，直接把其中源码拉下来打下新补丁重新编译然后就能用了，确实好用

        Read full on X, posted by @czh1130

        @czh1130 · x.com

    9. Aug 201 post

      • Your coding agent writes code you didn't read, and then you run it. Containers share one kernel, whether that's your machine's or a VM's. Each smolvm run gets its own guest kernel in its own VM,…

        Read full on X, posted by @NewsOfLinux

        @NewsOfLinux · x.com

    10. Aug 181 post

      • 专注于易用性的轻量虚拟机

        Read full on X, posted by @xidianwlc

        @xidianwlc · x.com

    11. Aug 162 posts

      • • Sub-second cold start on macOS, Linux, and Windows • Pack stateful VMs into a single .smolmachine file for cross-platform rehydration • Sandbox untrusted code with network allowlists and SSH agent…

        Read full on X, posted by @the_osps

        @the_osps · x.com

      • arch btw. on a mac. with smol machines.

        Read full on X, posted by @binsquares

        @binsquares · x.com

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