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Is anyone here using this software? How do you integrate it with your agent workflow? Do you run agents in editor (Zed, VS Code, Cursor, whatever)?

Have you tried the sync feature?

Edit: FML why is this being downvoted? At least have the decency of explaining, I'm happy to adjust my conduct but I can't do so if I don't know what I did wrong.

it depends where you want your agent to live. inside the sandbox, start a sandbox via the CLI and run your agents/do your dev in there. outside the sandbox, you'd configure your harness to use the MCP / skill integration. here's the guide: https://docs.microsandbox.dev/getting-started/agents

if you're building a harness, the SDK provides better integration. let me know if you hit any blockers.

for sync, it's currently in the works.

That's such a HN title!
>Every file operation inside the VM had to bounce out to the host through FUSE

Lol, yeah that was your mistake. FUSE is a phenomenal idea but anyone who has used it knows how slow it can be.

FUSE is not slow. Our distributed file system pipes over 70 GB/a through a single mount point.
Isn't it really obvious that a user space fs will always be slow, and especially slow with small files?

I don't know the purpose of microsandbox, but such an article doesn't give me great confidence in exploring it further.

If your problem could be solved without FUSE, it probably should!
I've found that tar processing tends to dominate the time used to do anything with standard OCI layers. I have a more efficient format (that splits apart the layer into metadata+chunks) that I'm open sourcing soon if y'all are interested in using it.
You made your filesystem 47x slower by NIHing it
The site is impossible for me to read due to the colors. I went to lynx and i looks like it is about a file system in a VM.
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