Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by aluzzardi » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

Show HN: Container Use for Agents
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Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by steeve » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 5:55 PM UTC

Very cool that this runs as a MCP server, very cool demo

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by shykes » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 10:36 PM UTC

Hi all, we open sourced this live on stage today at AI Engineer World Fair (great event by the way).

If you're interested, here's the keynote recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/U-fMsbY-kHY?t=3400s

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by rahimnathwani » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 11:14 PM UTC

I'm curious: what do containers add over and above whatever you'd get using worktrees on their own?

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by shykes » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 11:26 PM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #4

I'm curious: what do containers add over and above whatever you'd get using worktrees on their own?

They're complementary. git worktrees isolate file edits; containers isolate execution: building, testing, running dev instances..

container-use combines both forms of isolation: containers and git worktrees in a seamless system that agents can use to get work done.

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by brunoqc » Thu, Jun 05, 2025, 11:27 PM UTC

rahimnathwani wrote: post #4

I'm curious: what do containers add over and above whatever you'd get using worktrees on their own?

I would guess isolation/safety.

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by dboreham » Fri, Jun 06, 2025, 1:04 AM UTC

steeve wrote: post #2

Very cool that this runs as a MCP server, very cool demo

Seems odd that the LLM is so clever it can write programs to drive any API. But so dumb that it needs a new special purpose protocol proxy to access anything behind such an API...

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by sharifhsn » Fri, Jun 06, 2025, 1:53 AM UTC

dboreham wrote: post #7

steeve wrote: post #2

Very cool that this runs as a MCP server, very cool demo

Seems odd that the LLM is so clever it can write programs to drive any API. But so dumb that it needs a new special purpose protocol proxy to access anything behind such an API...

It’s about resilience. LLMs are prone to hallucinations. Although they can be very intelligent, they don’t have 100% correct output unaided. The protocol helps increase the resilience of the output so that there’s more of a guarantee that the LLM will stay within the lines you’ve drawn around it.

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by kamikaz1k » Fri, Jun 06, 2025, 2:39 AM UTC

Page is crashing my mobile chrome.

Re: Show HN: Container Use for Agents

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Post by lmeyerov » Fri, Jun 06, 2025, 3:46 AM UTC

Interesting. I have been doing a simple man's version of multiple git clone folders and 'docker compose -p'. Making that smoother is attractive, esp if can be made opaque for our more junior teammates.

On one end, I have been curious about getting multiple agents to work on the same branch, but realized I can just wait till they do that natively.

More so, all this feels like a dead end. I think OpenAI and github are right to push to remote development, so these don't matter. Eg, mark up a PR or branch in GitHub, and come back as necessary, and do it all from my phone. If I want an IDE, it can be remote ssh.