Tilde.run
Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem
Details
- External ID
- 48037724
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Tilde.run
- Website domain
- tilde.run
- Launched
- May 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 205
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9644588045234249
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- coding agent interfaces and environments
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- sandboxed environment for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building secure, low-latency microVM sandboxes paired with a custom transactional copy-on-write filesystem requires deep operating systems, Linux kernel, and virtualization expertise.
What it would actually take: A production system requires low-overhead virtualization (e.g., Firecracker microVMs or gVisor) orchestrating Linux cgroups, namespaces, and seccomp profiles. The versioned filesystem demands copy-on-write snapshotting via btrfs/ZFS, overlayfs layering, or custom content-addressed block storage with transactional branching and rollback mechanisms. This requires senior systems and infrastructure engineers fluent in Rust/Go and Linux internals.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: microsandbox, boxlite, Cloudflare Artifacts, Agent Sandboxes (k8s), SmolVMhttps://github.com/CelestoAI/smolVM
Concerns raised: Rollback of API calls outside transactions, Data exfiltration risks with closed-source sandboxes, S3 Files not POSIX compliant (atomic renames unsupported), Cannot prevent agent from deleting remote GitHub/S3/Google Drive data, Doesn't offer advantages over Linux VM with read-only folders
Feature requests: Read-only access mode for remote storage, Local sandbox option (not cloud-based), Kernel module POSIX mount support, API call rollback capability, Versioning support
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 376 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 377 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 178 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I Built a Sandbox for Agents · hn · 2026-01-28 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Veris · hn · 2026-05-07 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Agent37: Host any agent harness · yc · 2026-09-29 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Hydra · hn · 2026-09-09 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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.