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The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

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Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

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I took a look inside the VMs that a couple of the agent platforms are using. TLDR is they use firecracker with memory in git. I'm a big fan of the memory in git part it would be cool to see how the git history looks after I use it for a longer period of time. This is my first blog, I'm trying to document things publically as I learn, next I'll look more closely at the providers they are using under the hood (eg. e2b)…

How did you find their internal services ?

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

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I was hoping for a whole catalogue of providers - doesn't amp have their own offering here "Orbs"? So, the interesting part for me was: "Who runs the fleet Anthropic, its own E2B, rented, third party" Like that's the only option, a bespoke platform or a rented SaaS for agent sandboxes. Disclaimer: I am tooting my own horn here - we built SlicerVM.com (Firecracker + Apple Virtualization framework) so that people don't…

Amp’s Orbs run on E2B.

E2B is fully open-source under Apache 2.0 and runs on GCP, AWS, Azure (preview) and locally on any Linux box that has /dev/kvm (Mac works via Colima, too).

source: https://github.com/e2b-dev/infra

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

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post #21

I took a look inside the VMs that a couple of the agent platforms are using. TLDR is they use firecracker with memory in git. I'm a big fan of the memory in git part it would be cool to see how the git history looks after I use it for a longer period of time. This is my first blog, I'm trying to document things publically as I learn, next I'll look more closely at the providers they are using under the hood (eg. e2b)…

How did you find their internal services ?

accessed the vm through my terminal through a websocket: https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/ws-term

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

#24
post #13

I took a look inside the VMs that a couple of the agent platforms are using. TLDR is they use firecracker with memory in git. I'm a big fan of the memory in git part it would be cool to see how the git history looks after I use it for a longer period of time. This is my first blog, I'm trying to document things publically as I learn, next I'll look more closely at the providers they are using under the hood (eg. e2b)…

hey, i work at E2B, happy to answer any questions!

you guys are awesome!

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

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post #17
post #13

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hey, i work at E2B, happy to answer any questions!

super cool product, any thoughts on adding native llm support to your sandboxes ?

my thoughts is that Firecracker might be not the best runtime for that, as it’s very minimal on devices it wants to support (famously no PCI out of the box)

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you find their internal services ?

accessed the vm through my terminal through a websocket: https://github.com/RohanAdwankar/ws-term

so basically you convince the agent to run a script which allows you to get a “shell” and then from there i just grepped around and figured it out

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

#27
post #9

It's always, firecracker all the way down! Enjoyed the breakdown, honestly most of the things weren't really surprising. What was surprising to me was that instinct was just "agent slapped on top of markdown files in git", especially after seeing people talk about it so much. I expected at least a database or a graph or something "smart", but alas, its just three markdowns in a trenchcoat.

well to be fair this was just what i could reach inside the sandbox by grepping around if they are doing something else behind the api i wouldnt be able to see it

in guessing the most important thing to get right for their target usecase is the computer use and from the tools i saw for that the computers they provision were requestable by the subagents so probably something cool going on there

Re: The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

#29

I was hoping for a whole catalogue of providers - doesn't amp have their own offering here "Orbs"? So, the interesting part for me was: "Who runs the fleet Anthropic, its own E2B, rented, third party" Like that's the only option, a bespoke platform or a rented SaaS for agent sandboxes. Disclaimer: I am tooting my own horn here - we built SlicerVM.com (Firecracker + Apple Virtualization framework) so that people don't…

yes i havent tried out the rest of them, i learned about the space mainly just by poking around these 2 agents that I use. It seems very fun though since theres lot of optimization problems at play. Ill check out your one too would be cool to see what apples virtualization framework is like!
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