Era
Open-source local sandbox for AI agents
Details
- External ID
- 46065997
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Era
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Nov. 27, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 62
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8580786026200873
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Just watched this video by ThePrimeagen (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efwDZw7l2Nk) about attackers jailbreaking Claude to run cyber attacks. The core issue: AI agents need isolation.We built ERA to fix this – local microVM-based sandboxing for AI-generated code with hardware-level security. Think containers, but safer. Such attacks wouldn't touch your host if running in ERA.GitHub: https://github.com/BinSquare/ERAQuick start: https://github.com/BinSquare/ERA/tree/main/era-agent/tutoria...Would love your thoughts and feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- local sandbox for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Era is a secure local sandbox using microVMs (such as Firecracker or Cloud-Hypervisor) for isolating untrusted code, requiring deep systems programming and virtualization expertise.
What it would actually take: A real system requires a Rust or Go daemon managing Linux KVM or macOS Hypervisor.framework primitives to spin up sub-second microVMs, configure jailer sandboxing (cgroups, seccomp filters), and manage virtio network/block devices. The core challenge is achieving robust hardware-level isolation, memory sharing, and zero-trust guest-host RPC channels without latency overhead, demanding specialized kernel and hypervisor engineering skills.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Firecracker microVMs, gVisor syscall-level sandboxing, Docker containers, krunvm
Concerns raised: Unclear value proposition over existing container/VM solutions, Cloudflare integration confusing for local-first use case, krunvm has breaking issues requiring upstream fixes, Target audience unclear - may not suit all users
Feature requests: Node.js/npm SDK for local installation without system-wide setup, Component diagram showing architecture and deployment model, IDE integration for running code sandboxed locally, Improved resource monitoring and cleanup, Better documentation clarifying when to use vs containers/VMs
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 327 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 328 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 21 days after the earliest competitor.
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- CreateOS Sandbox · ph · 2026-07-21 · 153 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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- Run AI coding agents in real, local sandboxes, not Git worktrees · hn · 2026-04-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- We built a <60ms, open-source alternative to E2B using RustVMM and KVM · hn · 2026-04-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Agent Vault · hn · 2026-04-22 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Sandbox Agent SDK · hn · 2026-01-28 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.46
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a agent / copilot tool for Agriculture yet.