"Hosting company Fly.io introduces Sprites, lightweight virtual machines based on Firecracker. These are specially designed to isolate coding agents in their own environment. CEO Kurt Mackey explains that traditional "ephemeral sandboxes" (read: containers) are not suitable for agents like Claude. Persistent VMs allow agents to resume work on pull requests without having to rebuild the development environment each time. According to Mackey, a Sprite comes online within one to twelve seconds. When inactive, they shut down but retain permanent storage."
"Claude is not a "pro developer," Mackey says. Instead, it is a "hyperproductive five-year-old savant." In other words, it tries everything, including what works, but "wants to stick its finger in every available socket." To protect against this (and the end user's development environment), an agent is given a "computer," or a VM. Billing is based on CPU time, memory usage, and storage consumed. Sprites also offer checkpoint and restore functionality, allowing users to quickly roll back a damaged environment."
Sprites are lightweight virtual machines built on Firecracker and designed to isolate coding agents in dedicated environments. Persistent Sprites resume work on pull requests without rebuilding development environments and come online within one to twelve seconds while retaining permanent storage when inactive. Sprites provide checkpoint and restore functionality to recover damaged environments quickly. Billing is based on CPU time, memory usage, and storage consumption. Sprites use a redesigned storage architecture and distinct orchestration, avoid Docker images, and include a simplified CLI to address complexity. Sprites target agentic coding and mitigate risks from prompt injection and hallucination.
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