I'm running parallel Pi agents on a local sandbox
Details
- External ID
- 47992937
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- I'm running parallel Pi agents on a local sandbox
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 3, 2026
- Cohort
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- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4894991922455573
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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
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
- parallel ai agents in sandbox
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 176 days after the earliest competitor.
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- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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