I'm running parallel Pi agents on a local sandbox
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I've been running Pi using SmolVM to build SmolVM!SmolVM provides an abstraction over microVMs to easily create sandboxes for coding agents, OpenClaw, or just to build a custom harness.To use it, install using: curl -sSL https://celesto.ai/install.sh | bashand then run: smolvm pi start
HN · launched May 3, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 51%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent execution sandboxes · 137 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
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- Agent / copilot
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The CLI wrapper to orchestrate coding agents in parallel is straightforward, but the underlying microVM isolation layer (SmolVM) requires low-level systems virtualization infrastructure.
What it would actually take: Requires an agent coordination CLI in Go or Rust communicating with a hypervisor daemon managing Firecracker or cloud-hypervisor microVMs. The complex part is safely spawning, networking, and snapshotting multiple lightweight virtual machines concurrently with shared file sync on host OSes. Needs systems engineering expertise in Linux namespaces, cgroups, and virtualization primitives.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 222 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #109 of 223 (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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