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Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by Galanwe »

kushalpatil07 wrote: post #30

I was trying to build an agent. None of the sandboxes out there had solved the filesystem problem. I want my agent to have a persistent storage, and that stays forever. Like a human with a computer. When the agent spins up again, it has access to the computer with the same files. I had to create my own setup using aws s3 filesystem and docker for this. Does Tilde solve for this?

Snapshotting a filesystem is trivial with e.g. btrfs. You can hook snapshot creation in your agent.

That is a single one liner of btrfs subvolume snapshot, in a single hook configuration file, ready to be valued at $10B as quantum agentic versioned sandbox startup.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by zuzululu »

stronglikedan wrote: post #44
zuzululu wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just get a $5 VPS or hetzner and you are good.

infosec would like a word...

which is the bare minimum that I hope people are doing , nothing about trusting a third party is any less or more secure.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by seamossfet »

Does this provide gitflow to handle conflicts from multiple agents touching the same file system or is it purely for single-branch sequential iterations on the filesystem?

I have a use case that could use this if it supports handling branching and merging file systems.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by thepoet »

kushalpatil07 wrote: post #30

I was trying to build an agent. None of the sandboxes out there had solved the filesystem problem. I want my agent to have a persistent storage, and that stays forever. Like a human with a computer. When the agent spins up again, it has access to the computer with the same files. I had to create my own setup using aws s3 filesystem and docker for this. Does Tilde solve for this?

Hey, this is exactly what we do at https://instavm.io Agents get persistent storage that outlive the sandbox and when the agent spins up again you get access to the computer with same files.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by verdverm »

I implemented something like this in ADK with Dagger, but it misses some important features b/c of BuildKit underneath. The OCI foundations make saving each step as a layer, diff, clone/fork, and time travel easy. The hard parts are security and resource limits.

Glad to see more takes in this space.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by anonymousiam »

Back in the 1970's when versioned filesystems were invented, they provided a recovery path for when a file was improperly changed or deleted. Now, in the age of LLMs that go rouge, I can see why they would become popular again.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by verdverm »

stronglikedan wrote: post #43
zuzululu wrote: post #40

more tools I will never use or need theres just an endless supply of new open source projects now I stopped paying attention I increasingly feel the impact of landing on the frontpage of HN is not as pronounced as it used to be. The demographic shift of HN is also noted, it has a lot more "reddit" vibe than I remember.

there's always been an endless supply of open source projects, but I think you'd be hard pressed to find an open source replacement for this project

There are dozens or hundreds of sandbox projects and companies now. It's the new vector database / agent memory until people notice OCI can do most of this and is already widely adopted in industry.

Re: Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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Post by gavmor »

kushalpatil07 wrote: post #30

I was trying to build an agent. None of the sandboxes out there had solved the filesystem problem. I want my agent to have a persistent storage, and that stays forever. Like a human with a computer. When the agent spins up again, it has access to the computer with the same files. I had to create my own setup using aws s3 filesystem and docker for this. Does Tilde solve for this?

Nanoclaw mounts each agent's folder to the ephemeral container.
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