@nodeops-createos/sandbox

TypeScript SDK for the createos-sandbox control plane — spawn VM sandboxes, run commands, move files, expose services, and manage disks and networks. createSandbox() returns a stateful Sandbox handle, errors are a typed hierarchy, and the transport retries transient failures automatically.

Zero runtime dependencies. ESM-only. Runs on Node 20+, Bun, Deno, Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, and the browser.

Install

npm install @nodeops-createos/sandbox
# or: bun add @nodeops-createos/sandbox

Requires Node 20+ (or any runtime with global fetch, ReadableStream, and AbortSignal.any — Bun, Deno, modern edge runtimes).

Quick start

import { CreateosSandboxClient } from "@nodeops-createos/sandbox";

// baseUrl from CREATEOS_SANDBOX_BASE_URL, apiKey from CREATEOS_SANDBOX_API_KEY
const client = new CreateosSandboxClient();

const sandbox = await client.createSandbox({
  shape: "s-4vcpu-4gb",
  rootfs: "devbox:1",
});

try {
  const { result } = await sandbox.runCommand("node", ["--version"]);
  console.log(result.stdout); // "v20.x.x"
} finally {
  await sandbox.destroy();
}

baseUrl defaults to the production control plane; override it via the constructor or CREATEOS_SANDBOX_BASE_URL. createSandbox blocks until the sandbox reaches running. Sandboxes bill while running — tear down in finally, or set an idle auto_pause_after_seconds.

Documentation

Full docs follow the Diátaxis framework and live under docs/:

• Quickstart — install, authenticate, first sandbox
• Tutorial — build an AI app generator end to end
• How-to guides — files, lifecycle, services, disks, streaming, errors, observability
• API reference — every class, method, and type
• Explanation — the VM model, the handle model, lifecycle, reliability
• Examples — runnable programs, one per directory under examples/

For AI agents and tools: the machine-readable index is llms.txt and the full corpus is bundled in llms-full.txt (llmstxt.org).

Key facts

• Zero runtime dependencies, ESM-only — a hand-written fetch client.
• Typed errors — a CreateosSandboxError hierarchy with HTTP status → class mapping. See errors.
• Automatic retries — idempotent requests retry on transient failures with backoff, jitter, and Retry-After. See reliability.
• Streaming, ingress, snapshots — NDJSON command streaming, per-sandbox preview URLs, and pause / fork / resume.

Contributing

Working in this repository? See AGENTS.md for the contributor and agent guide. Commits are gated by .pre-commit-config.yaml (lint, format, typecheck, tests, docs-sync).

License

See LICENSE.