boxlite-ai/boxlite
The micro-VM for AI agents — light enough to embed on your laptop, elastic enough to power an agentic cloud. observed · 2026-10-18
Health v2 · maintenance only
84/100
- Activity 100
- Release rhythm 100
- Longevity 22
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 2.0
- age_days: 317
- days_rel: 3
- days_push: 3
- n_releases_24m: 47
Adoption not part of the score
2583 stars · 208 forks observed · 2026-10-18
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
BoxLite is an embeddable micro-VM runtime written in Rust that runs any OCI image inside hardware-isolated virtual machines (KVM on Linux, Hypervisor.framework on macOS, WSL2 on Windows). It is designed as a secure compute substrate for AI agents, allowing untrusted or model-generated code to run in persistent, stateful sandboxes with no daemon and no root privileges.
Use cases
- run LLM-generated code in a secure sandbox
- execute untrusted third-party code safely
- give AI agents an isolated environment to run code and browsers
- run multi-tenant isolated workloads in a backend service
- persist agent environments across sessions with installed packages and files
- run a coding agent in an isolated VM
- sandbox code execution in CI or code grading systems
When to choose
- you need hardware-level isolation stronger than containers for untrusted code
- you want an embeddable, daemonless sandbox library with no root requirements
- you need persistent, stateful sandboxes that survive stop/start cycles
- you want to run any OCI/Docker image unchanged in a microVM
- you need controlled networking with egress allowlists and secret injection
When to avoid
- you only need lightweight container-level isolation and shared-kernel namespaces are sufficient
- your host lacks hardware virtualization support (KVM, Hypervisor.framework, or WSL2)
- you need a fully managed sandbox service without running your own hypervisor infrastructure
- you need Windows or BSD guest environments, since boxes run a Linux kernel
Facets
library · maturity active
security sdk developer-tools self-hosted artificial-intelligence security developer-tools cloud-computing windows rust python go cli self-hosted cloud microvm sandboxing untrusted-code-execution oci-images hardware-isolation agent-runtime daemonless kvm hypervisor-framework code-execution sandbox virtualization ai-agents linux macos nodejs
8 sources
- readme: https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite · fetched 2026-10-18 · 27e75df26f56
- homepage: https://boxlite.ai/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 472f1953c325
- site_page: https://docs.boxlite.ai · fetched 2026-08-29 · 80a5b901ad55
- site_page: https://docs.boxlite.ai/cloud/quickstart · fetched 2026-08-29 · 3d8bb62e3210
- site_page: https://docs.boxlite.ai/cloud/billing · fetched 2026-08-29 · ce009e6c91ff
- site_page: https://docs.boxlite.ai/getting-started · fetched 2026-08-29 · 72df400d8634
- site_page: https://boxlite.ai/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 20a2d04dd660
- registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/boxlite · fetched 2026-08-29 · 4d01211f32f5
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| boxlite-ai/boxlite | main | 84 |
For agents
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