GLOVEBOX 
SANDBOXES FOR IDLE AGENTS
2026

# SANDBOXES FOR AGENTS THAT MOSTLY WAIT

An agent spends most of its time thinking. When it needs to act, Glovebox hands it a microVM in milliseconds and takes it back when it's done. You pay for the seconds it works.

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## A SAMPLE RUN

+--------------------------------------------------+----------+
| 100 sandboxes at once, P95 to first command      | 27-45 ms |
| Workspace restore + mount, P95, one at a time    |     3 ms |
| Workspace restore + mount, P95, 100 at once      |    56 ms |
| Host evacuation, 118 GB restored                 |    260 s |
+--------------------------------------------------+----------+

## HOW IT WORKS

Every sandbox is a Firecracker microVM restored from a warm snapshot, so it boots in tens of milliseconds.

Three pieces: sandboxes that stay up as long as you need them, exec for one command in a fresh VM that's thrown away after, and workspaces, disks that outlive any VM and mount into the next one your agent uses.

We copy workspaces, encrypted per customer, to storage outside our hosting provider. If we lose a host, your files come back on another one.

## COMING FROM E2B?

Run one command in a fresh sandbox. On Glovebox that's a single call: it boots the VM, runs the command and throws the VM away.

# E2B
sbx = Sandbox()
print(sbx.commands.run("python3 -c 'print(1+1)'").stdout)
sbx.kill()

# Glovebox
curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $GLOVEBOX_API_KEY" \
  -d '{"template":"base","cmd":["python3","-c","print(1+1)"]}' \
  https://api.glovebox.run/v1/exec

# Glovebox in JavaScript (soon)
import { exec } from "@idlebots/glovebox";
const { stdout } = await exec("python3 -c 'print(1+1)'");

A full porting guide is on the way. Until then, point your coding agent at /llms.txt and it'll walk you through getting in.

## WHAT WE LOG

We log network connections out of sandboxes and use those logs to stop abuse. That's all we use them for. We don't run analytics on your agents or read what they do.

## ABOUT

Glovebox is an early-access project by @abhay. DMs are open. privacy · acceptable use