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Show HN: Tilde.run – Agent Sandbox with a Transactional, Versioned Filesystem

https://tilde.run/
47•ozkatz•1h ago

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danielbenzvi•1h ago
Interesting. Their versioned storage sandbox seems to be what really sets them apart
qudat•54m ago
I don't get it, it looks like they are copying data to the sandbox filesystem why would that impact production data? Because the agent can re-upload the file to s3?
ozkatz•51m ago
Good question - the filesystem is Fuse-mounted into the sandbox, not copied into it. This way agents can modify data directly simply by interacting with the "local" files.
afshinmeh•18m ago
That's exactly how I tried to address that problem with https://github.com/afshinm/zerobox -- you control what network access (e.g. `--deny-net *.amazonaws.com`) your agent has and you also get snapshotting out of the box.

That said, using LakeFS is probably a better long term solution and I like this approach.

cyanydeez•47m ago
I know everyones trying to figure out how to make money in this grift economy, but if you're a rational person, you know that it's all a bunch of gambling and tailoring your scope to b2b and ignoring local & open source models and tools, you're more likely going to be part of that permanent undeclass they keep talking about in a self-fullfilling prophecy.
yuppiepuppie•41m ago
What are you insinuating about this particular Show HN?
jrm4•11m ago
Sir, this is just one piece of software.
wyre•40m ago
Interesting. Literally saw a tweet talking about exactly this last night.

Not sure how I feel about it using on your hosted service, while your home page is asking me for analytics data and only the cli and sdk are open source.

ozkatz•38m ago
Fair enough - the underlying technology is indeed open source (https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS) - the service provides the hosting and tooling to make it easy for consumption by agents.
wyre•20m ago
Thats a cool project. I didn't scroll down far enough to see that. Thanks for the correction

I get providing a hosted service, but I don't understand how it makes it easier for agents to consume unless you're hosting an MCP? My understanding is an agent skill and a cli tool is all an agent needs?

ozkatz•17m ago
The repository itself get fuse-mounted into the running sandbox - no skill or MCP required to interact with data: an agent can simply `cat <file>` and use whatever tools they are already good at using.
esafak•30m ago
I do not get it. If the agent is not mutating state the change can be checked in. If it is mutating external state, version control won't save you.
ozkatz•28m ago
the repo acts as a source of truth for agents. think memory, data & code. If an agent decides to change any of those, version control allows:

1. to have a human in the loop to approve certain changes 2. rollback changes that end up being incorrect 3. allow reviewing the timeline and history to figure out what changed and how

esafak•19m ago
2. is false. You can't roll back everything an agent does. If you told it to place a trade in the stock market, for example, you can not undo that. That is what I mean by external state. Everything else is covered by existing version control, is it not? What does this buy over that?
ozkatz•15m ago
indeed - this only applies to the filesystem managed by tilde. Existing version control is fine if you're only managing code. For data (Think large parquet files, millions json files, images and videos, etc), git doesn't scale well for that.
bossyTeacher•15m ago
Re 2: how do you rollback the (erroneous) action of removing a db table column and the subsequent data loss from the removed column?
docheinestages•28m ago
Just my two cents: less is more and the first impression matters a lot. I'm saying this because we see a new agent sandbox tool on the front-page almost every day. Most of them have an AI-made landing page design, lots of animations, lots of words. This has become a bad sign for me. I can tell that you put time into it, made a video, and everything, but I guess I'm suffering from some kind of fatigue of having to go through all these tools. So, the less I have to process to get to the meat of exactly what I'm looking at, what sets this apart from others, why and when I would need to use it, then the more likely I am to actually engage with the product.
ozkatz•26m ago
That's fair. What makes this unique is the versioned, composable filesystem. It's built on top of lakeFS (https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS) so it scales really well, unlike other solutions that try and do this with Git directly.
whalesalad•18m ago
Agreed. All of these tools promise the world and are so incredibly vague. Actually show me what I can do with it, like hands on.
ozkatz•14m ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDR8tmes020 - a 2 minute hands-on demo!
dtran24•27m ago
Do git and branching fit into this at all?
ozkatz•25m ago
Sure! and it's not either/or - you can either import code from GitHub (or any other git remote) into a Tilde repository, or simply clone a repository directly inside the sandbox if you want full control over the git commit/branch semantics.
pwr1•22m ago
This looks pretty useful. The versioned filesystem part is nice becuase that’s exactly where a lot of agent stuff gets messy fast.
digitaltrees•10m ago
Interesting project. I am building an IDE for my phone and browser (www.propelcode.app) and have evaluated a few container architectures and providers. It was quite painful to get a prototype working. I will try your platform and would be happy to give feedback.
ozkatz•9m ago
Much appreciated! and good luck with your project
dorianzheng•9m ago
any chance i can run local micro-VM such as boxlite with this?
viewhub•7m ago
What compute resources does the sandbox have? Memory/CPU/GPU?
kushalpatil07•5m ago
I was trying to build an agent. None of the sandboxes out there had solved the filesystem problem. I want my agent to have a persistent storage, and that stays forever. Like a human with a computer. When the agent spins up again, it has access to the computer with the same files.

I had to create my own setup using aws s3 filesystem and docker for this.

Does Tilde solve for this?

ozkatz•3m ago
Exactly that!

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