sandstorm: Run thousands of AI agent sandboxes on the cheapest machines

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How to install sandstorm

git clone https://github.com/deeplethe/sandstorm.git && cd sandstorm

Taken from the project's README on GitHub. Check the security audit before running it.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 65/100

Flagged: sudo usage. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours. Full audit →

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars3,946
Forks312
LanguageRust
CategoryAgent Tool
LicenseApache-2.0
Quality Score65/100
Open Issues13
Last Updated2026-11-01
Created2026-05-11
Platformsrust
Est. Tokens~32k

About sandstorm

Sandbox lifecycle · Key features · Latency · Quick start · Status One machine, thousands of sandboxes. Sandstorm pauses idle sandboxes and snapshots them to disk, then restores them quickly when a request arrives, so one machine can hold far more sandboxes than it could run at once. It supports two sa

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with sandstorm for enhanced workflows:

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  • clawk — semantic(0.35)+complementary+rare_topics+similar_pop (52%)
  • clawhive — semantic(0.16)+complementary+same_lang+shared_platform (46%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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