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Dormice
Dormice is a self-hosted sandbox platform for AI agents that provides persistent, idle-free environments with full E2B compatibility for code execution.
Dormice functions as a self-hosted sandbox platform designed for AI agents that maintains persistent execution environments on dedicated infrastructure. Unlike cloud-based sandboxes that charge for usage duration, this system treats sandboxes as long-term assets that become cheaper as they sit idle. It supports the official E2B SDK, allowing migration by updating API URLs and keys, while providing native capabilities like file I/O, command execution, and lifecycle management. The architecture relies on a single binary daemon with SQLite for ledger management and utilizes Docker with gVisor for secure isolation. Dormice handles the full sandbox lifecycle, including creation, freezing, stopping, and archiving to S3-compatible storage for long-term data retention.
Dormice at a glance
Key features
- E2B protocol compatibility
- Permanent sandbox persistence
- Idle sandbox memory compression
- S3-compatible cold storage archiving
- Native TypeScript client SDK
- Docker and gVisor isolation
- Idempotent sandbox acquisition
Use it for
- Running persistent AI agent coding environments
- Executing untrusted code in secure isolation
- Managing long-running agent workspaces on private servers
- Building infrastructure for AI code interpreters
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