Tilde.run

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Tilde.run

Agent sandbox with a transactional, versioned filesystem

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#agent sandbox#versioned filesystem#lakefs#ai agents#rollback

205points
133comments
#280of 4,366 in 2026
Top 7%of 2026 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

14 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 24 critical, out of 62 comments about the project. Thread score -0.14.

Idea: 9 for, 15 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 3 againstDesign: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 1 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Versioned storage sandbox is a differentiator

    From 2 comments
    • Interesting. Their versioned storage sandbox seems to be what really sets them apart
      danielbenzvi on HN
    • This looks pretty useful. The versioned filesystem part is nice becuase that’s exactly where a lot of agent stuff gets messy fast.
      pwr1 on HN
  • Useful for persistent agent storage

    From 2 comments
    • 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…
      kushalpatil07 on HN
    • Exactly that!
      ozkatz on HN

Objections

  • Hosted service, not a local or open source sandbox

    From 3 comments
    • I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource…
      jFriedensreich on HN
    • Another one. If it's not a local sandbox, I'm not interested. We've got enough subscription lock-in from LLM's already.
      grim_io on HN
    • 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…
      wyre on HN
  • Lacks clear use case and vague landing page

    From 3 comments
    • All these agent offering are missing a use case. What I would use it for and why? It reminds me of a blockchain - where it was a solution desperately looking for a problem. What…
      varispeed on HN
    • 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…
      docheinestages on HN
    • This is an excellent idea who's time has come. But this is too vague for me. I'm not seeing my questions answered in the landing page or FAQ either. E.g.,... what's the pricing?…
      jmull on HN
  • Demo is weak

    From 1 comment
    • Being brutally honest - terrible demo. 80% of this is baseline stuff, setting up permissions (annoying), and the last few seconds we see a file was deleted and we can approve it.…
      whalesalad on HN
  • Versioning already available via git or S3

    From 2 comments
    • Git is already versioned, S3 support versioning and any file copied into the sandbox, is well a copy, so I am not sure what is the angle here. Other than that it looks cool!
      _pdp_ on HN
    • Just enable versioning in S3?
      mdavid626 on HN

Requests

  • Local or open source version

    From 2 comments
    • I had to dig hard to find this is a SAAS sandbox offering not an actual sandbox (the software i can use locally). Its just wasting peoples time, no one needs a non opensource…
      jFriedensreich on HN
    • Another one. If it's not a local sandbox, I'm not interested. We've got enough subscription lock-in from LLM's already.
      grim_io on HN
  • Clear pricing

    From 2 comments
    • > Free to start Before I invest my time into something like this I'll need to know what it'll end up costing in the end. Perhaps it's just that "private previews" aren't for me.…
      stronglikedan on HN
    • This is an excellent idea who's time has come. But this is too vague for me. I'm not seeing my questions answered in the landing page or FAQ either. E.g.,... what's the pricing?…
      jmull on HN
  • Read-only access controls

    From 1 comment
    • This is good and all, but it doesn't stop the agent from deleting you remote github branches, s3 data or potentially gdrive data. Are you able to set access read only? I'd never…
      tim-projects on HN

Questions

  • Which OS is supported

    From 1 comment
    • I glanced through the whole documentation, the homepage and the github readmes and still couldn't figure out which OS do they support and how. And this is especially important to…
      egorfine on HN
  • How atomic commits and conflicts work

    From 1 comment
    • This is an excellent idea who's time has come. But this is too vague for me. I'm not seeing my questions answered in the landing page or FAQ either. E.g.,... what's the pricing?…
      jmull on HN
  • Compute resources available

    From 1 comment
    • What compute resources does the sandbox have? Memory/CPU/GPU?
      viewhub on HN

Alternatives named

  • lakeFS directly

    From 1 comment
    • not at the moment. You can use lakeFS directly with Fuse-Mount to do something similar with your own compute.
      ozkatz on HN
  • SlicerVM

    From 1 comment
    • It's interesting to see this one launch (yes yet another sandbox.. I was getting worried we'd not seen one for a few days) SlicerVM (est. 2022) is already used for prime time,…
      alexellisuk on HN
  • SmolVM

    From 1 comment
    • This is something solved by a bunch of new sandboxes including ours - SmolVM https://github.com/CelestoAI/smolVM
      theaniketmaurya on HN
  • Btrfs snapshots

    From 1 comment
    • Snapshotting a filesystem is trivial with e.g. btrfs. You can hook snapshot creation in your agent. That is a single one liner of btrfs subvolume snapshot, in a single hook…
      Galanwe on HN

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