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The micro-VM for AI agents — light enough to embed on your laptop, elastic enough to power an agentic cloud.
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<strong>The compute substrate for AI agents</strong> — light enough to embed on your laptop, elastic enough to power an agentic cloud.
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## What is BoxLite?
A **Box** is a hardware-isolated micro-VM that runs any OCI image — and it persists. Agents install packages, write files, and resume across turns, never from cold.
**Why BoxLite**
- **Real isolation**: its own kernel — stronger than a container, lighter than a full VM. Small footprint, async-first for fleets.
- **Daemonless**: embed as a library — no root, no background service. *(optional server mode)*
- **OCI-native**: run any Docker image unchanged (`python:slim`, `node:alpine`, …).
- **Controlled networking**: restrict egress with `allow_net`; inject real secrets via placeholders.
- **Embed → cloud**: one engine, from your laptop to a multi-tenant cloud.
## Get started
One engine. Embed it, run it, deploy it, distribute it.
### 1 · Embed it — a library in your app
Import BoxLite and give your agent an isolated VM to run code — no daemon, no binary. *(Python 3.10+)*
```bash
pip install boxlite
```
```python
import asyncio
import boxlite
async def main():
async with boxlite.SimpleBox(image="python:slim") as box:
result = await box.exec("python", "-c", "print('Hello from BoxLite!')")
print(result.stdout)
asyncio.run(main())
```
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<summary>Other languages — Node.js, Go, Rust (and the C SDK)</summary>
**Node.js** (`npm install @boxlite-ai/boxlite`, Node 18+)
```javascript
import { SimpleBox } from '@boxlite-ai/boxlite';
const box = new SimpleBox({ image: 'python:slim' });
try {
const result = await box.exec('python', '-c', "print('Hello from BoxLite!')");
console.log(result.stdout);
} finally {
await box.stop();
}
```
**Go** (`go get github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite/sdks/go`, Go 1.24+ with CGO)
```go
ctx := context.Background()
rt, _ := boxlite.NewRuntime()
defer rt.Close()
box, _ := rt.Create(ctx, "alpine:latest")
defer box.Close()
result, _ := box.Exec(ctx, "echo", "Hello from BoxLite!")
fmt.Print(result.Stdout)
```
**Rust** (`cargo add boxlite tokio futures --features tokio/macros,tokio/rt-multi-thread`)
```rust
let runtime = BoxliteRuntime::default_runtime();
let litebox = runtime.create(BoxOptions {
rootfs: RootfsSpec::Image("alpine:latest".into()),
..Default::default()
}, None).await?;
let mut execution = litebox.exec(BoxCommand::new("echo").arg("Hello from BoxLite!")).await?;
let mut stdout = execution.stdout().unwrap();
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