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Epho

run Claude Code with a curl

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Hey folks, Burak here.Epho is an API that allows running Claude Code, Codex or Opencode in a sandbox in the cloud. It abstracts away sandboxes, and allows running coding agents with a single HTTP request.Epho came out of our own struggles with building our own AI analyst: - Sandboxes give you bare machines; you need to configure them for agentic workloads. - Each agent behaves differently, and you need to build integrations with each of them. - Sandbox providers are not very reliable, which means you need to figure out a multi-provider strategy to avoid failures. - Logging, artifacts, input/output, event streaming, and all of the other operational aspects need to be figured out.We had to go through the pain ourselves. We got to a point where things got quite reliable, and it became more obvious to us that this should be a primitive on its own: send a POST request, get the events streaming back to you.Epho is an agents-as-an-API product: you send a request, it spins up a sandbox, configures the chosen harness, clones your repos, and kicks off the agent. It takes care of automatic fallbacks across different providers, handles auth stuff, and just streams back the events and outputs.It supports Claude Code, Codex and Opencode out of the box, and pretty much all the models they support out of the box. It streams the events back, handles attachments and output files, automatically manages the fallbacks on different sandbox providers, retries, and all the auth stuff. You just send a prompt, your repo, MCP servers you want to use with it, and it runs them.I recorded a demo here to show a real example: https://youtu.be/HGfly1aytPAI am quite excited for Epho, simply because I think it is a new primitive that would allow building agents into product a lot easier than it is today. We are running our agents on Epho on prod, so we'll keep maintaining it regardless, and we wanted to ship it as an independent product.Epho is free to get started, and you can run it with Opencode's free models to get started with it.I am quite curious to hear what you'd think and would love to get your feedback.Cheers, Burak

HN · launched Aug 20, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent execution sandboxes · 137 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial The REST API wrapper and SSE streaming endpoints can be vibe coded, but orchestrating secure, multi-turn cloud sandboxes with snapshotting and low-latency resume capabilities demands specialized infrastructure.

What it would actually take: Requires microVM or container orchestration (e.g., Firecracker, Fly.io Machines, or Kubernetes with Kata Containers) managed via a Go/Node.js control plane. The hardest aspects are maintaining warm snapshot pools for fast boots, preserving filesystem states across conversation turns, securely tunneling MCP servers, and robustly parsing dynamic terminal outputs into clean event streams.

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Attention rank: #731 of 839 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 294 days after the earliest competitor.

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