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Engineering notes from the BoxLite runtime.

Micro-VM runtime in Rust for AI agent sandboxes, multi-tenant servers, and distributed serverless execution. Hardware isolation, fast boot, and near-native performance.

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Mandalore Wang6 min

An embedded sandbox shouldn't need a Linux VM

We started BoxLite with one conviction: a sandbox for AI agents should be a library you import, not a service you call. BoxLite's first commit, on December 8, 2025, said it in the opening line of the

Calvin Weng3 min

From one prompt to a playable game on BoxLite Cloud

We asked a coding agent to build a mobile arcade game and publish it on BoxLite Cloud. The result was a playable shooter with touch controls, boss waves, and a leaderboard shared across players. The

Calvin Weng4 min

Your agent built the app. Now put it online.

Tags: ai-agents, microvm, managed-runtime Cover description: Build and deploy apps with one prompt to your coding agent.Let BoxLite Cloud handle the infrastructure. Start with $100 in free credits. Yo

Mandalore Wang7 min

BoxLite v0.10.0: Your agent needs more than a sandbox

Tags: ai-agents, microvm, rust Cover description: BoxLite 0.10.0 gives agents a filesystem that outlives the box, an address the world can reach, and a ceiling that holds under concurrency. That is on

Mandalore Wang5 min

Idle is measured at the boundary, not inside the box

A BoxLite Cloud box stops when it goes idle and wakes when something touches it. The part worth understanding before you design around it is what "touches" means: idle is measured at the box's boundar