deeplethe/sandstorm

Fork() for AI agent microVMs. Spawn 100 children in ~100ms from a warm parent; BRANCH a live VM in ~150ms. KVM-isolated, snapshot CoW.

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Aug 30 – Oct 29, 2026

Stars +230 in 61 days

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Forks +92 in 61 days

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Merged PRs 39 in 61 days

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Sat, Oct 24, 2026	+0	+0	11
Sun, Oct 25, 2026	+0	+0	8
Mon, Oct 26, 2026	+1	+1	4
Tue, Oct 27, 2026	+4	+0	7
Wed, Oct 28, 2026	+101	+50	3
Thu, Oct 29, 2026	+0	+1	0
Total	+230	+92	39

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Aug 121 post
- this might be the E2B killer for AI agent sandboxes. forkd is an open-source microVM sandbox runtime built on Firecracker, made for AI agent fan-out, code interpreters, eval harnesses, anything that…
  Read full on X, posted by @oliviscusAI
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Aug 61 post
- Agent sandboxes need VM-grade isolation without booting a fresh VM every time. forkd warms one Firecracker parent with Python, dependencies, and model state, then spins up child microVMs from the…
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Jul 231 post
- 2/5 nono - run Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and other agents with least-privilege filesystem, network, credential, and tool rules
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Jun 301 post
- fork pushes it further. keep one warm parent paused, then copy-on-write the memory for each child. children share pages until they write, so you spin up a swarm off one snapshot without re-paying the…
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Jun 241 post
- 3/ iAmCorey/kooky (⭐114) — a minimal modern terminal for AI coding: sidebar workspaces, split panes, one-click agent launch.
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Jun 231 post
- Forkd: Fork() for AI Agent MicroVMs
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Jun 211 post
- Agent sandboxes shouldn’t cold-boot every time an agent branches. forkd is a Firecracker-based microVM sandbox runtime for AI agent fan-out. It helps you branch and fan out workloads faster by…
  Read full on X, posted by @DanKornas
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Jun 151 post
- Rapidly fork and branch live microVMs for AI agent fan-out
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16 days earlier
May 301 post
- Spawn 100 KVM-isolated AI agent VMs in 100ms. forkd adds fork() to microVMs: one warm parent, 100 children, copy-on-write snapshots, full kernel isolation. Pure Rust. 1k+ stars. #cbseresults #forkd…
  Read full on X, posted by @fireawesome26
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May 281 post
- 下班前看到个项目，forkd — 用 Firecracker 给 AI agent 整的 microVM fork。核心是 snapshot 写时拷贝，父 VM 预热后 fork 出子 VM，百毫秒级别分出 100 个，还能在运行态分支。说白了就是解决高频创建隔离沙箱的性能问题，Rust 写，KVM 隔离。
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