Modal just hosted our inaugural conference, Runtime. Here are a few of the highlights that we announced.
VM Sandboxes
VM Sandboxes give your agent access to a full Linux computer. Agents increasingly want to live inside something that looks like a real machine: running Docker stacks, local databases and dev servers, graphical environments and mobile simulators, and even monkeying around with the Linux Kernel itself.
VM Sandboxes are already in use at customers like Linear, Legora, and Snorkel powering coding agents and evals.
import modal
app = modal.App.lookup("sandbox-manager", create_if_missing=True) sb = modal.Sandbox.create(app=app, runtime="vm") print(sb.exec("uname", "-srn").stdout.read()) # Linux modal 7.2.6