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Microvm projects on GitHub

Lightweight virtual machines for sandboxed workloads.

As of , the most-starred Microvm projects on GitHub are OpenSandbox (15.9K stars), CubeSandbox (13K stars) and smolvm (6.8K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 9 Microvm repositories with 46.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was substrate, with +98 stars in a day.

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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+98

substrate

agent-substrate/substrate · ★ 5.4K

A secure-by-default runtime that hosts AI agents in isolated sandboxes — microVMs or gVisor containers — and runs millions of them on shared infrastructure, with much higher density than standard container runtimes.

+26

OpenSandbox

opensandbox-group/OpenSandbox · ★ 15.9K

OpenSandbox is a general-purpose sandbox platform for AI applications that provides multi-language SDKs, unified sandbox APIs, and Docker/Kubernetes runtimes for scenarios like coding agents, GUI agents, agent evaluation, AI code execution, and RL training.

+11

CubeSandbox

TencentCloud/CubeSandbox · ★ 13K

CubeSandbox is a high-performance, secure sandbox service for running untrusted AI agent code, built on RustVMM and KVM with hardware-isolated MicroVMs.

+9

smolvm

smol-machines/smolvm · ★ 6.8K

smolvm is a CLI tool for running embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machines so you can safely run AI agents and untrusted code locally, with sub-second cold start on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

The all-time top

9 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · opensandbox-group/OpenSandbox

    OpenSandbox

    OpenSandbox is a general-purpose sandbox platform for AI applications that provides multi-language SDKs, unified sandbox APIs, and Docker/Kubernetes runtimes for scenarios like coding agents, GUI agents, agent evaluation, AI code execution, and RL training.

    15.9K
  2. #2 · TencentCloud/CubeSandbox

    CubeSandbox

    CubeSandbox is a high-performance, secure sandbox service for running untrusted AI agent code, built on RustVMM and KVM with hardware-isolated MicroVMs.

    13K
  3. #3 · smol-machines/smolvm

    smolvm

    smolvm is a CLI tool for running embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machines so you can safely run AI agents and untrusted code locally, with sub-second cold start on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

    6.8K
  1. 4

    substrate

    5.4Kagent-substrate/substrate · Go

    A secure-by-default runtime that hosts AI agents in isolated sandboxes — microVMs or gVisor containers — and runs millions of them on shared infrastructure, with much higher density than standard container runtimes.

  2. 5

    arcbox

    4.2Karcboxlabs/arcbox · Rust

    ArcBox is a fast, open-source container and VM runtime for macOS, built from scratch in Rust, that acts as a drop-in Docker replacement while also offering disposable sandboxes for AI agents, native Kubernetes, and full Linux and macOS VMs.

  3. 6

    coop

    785trailofbits/coop · Rust

    coop is a Rust CLI that spins up disposable, isolated virtual machines so Claude Code and Codex can run with full tool access (Docker, git, compilers, package managers) without putting your host machine at risk.

  4. 7

    nvx

    408microsoft/nvx · Python

    NVX is an ultra-light micro-VM sandbox for running untrusted workloads with hardware-enforced isolation, built on OpenVMM and running Linux as the guest OS.

  5. 8

    brig

    232brig-sh/brig · Go

    Brig is a Go CLI (brig) with a session daemon (brigd) that runs coding agents inside a microVM sandbox on your own machine, so an unattended agent can only damage the one project you hand it.

  6. 9

    solari-cookbook

    192solari-sdk/solari-cookbook · Python

    A cookbook of small, runnable example programs for Solari, a service that gives you cloud browsers, sandboxes, and desktop VMs behind a single API key.

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