Run Claude Code and Codex in your own cloud environment
Boxes.dev is a cloud workbench designed for developers using coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. It belongs to the category of agent development environments but distinguishes itself by handing each agent a full Linux computer in the cloud. This product is for developers who want to scale their agent-driven workflows beyond a single laptop, enabling parallelism, persistence, and remote control. The core value is freeing coding agents from local constraints: instead of one agent at a time on your machine, you can launch many, each in its own isolated forked devbox, and manage them from any device. By migrating development environments to the cloud automatically, boxes.dev lets you focus on the work rather than the infrastructure.
The primary pain point boxes.dev solves is the limitation of running coding agents locally. When agents run on your laptop, they consume CPU, memory, and ports; you can only run one or a few at a time, and closing the lid kills the session. This forces developers to babysit agents or settle for sequential execution, slowing down experimentation and throughput. Boxes.dev removes these bottlenecks by giving every agent its own cloud VM that persists independently. This means you can spin up multiple agents tackling different tasks—like reworking authentication flows, auditing dependencies, and building integrations—all at once, without resource contention. The ability to leave agents running while you sleep or travel is a game-changer for complex, long-running coding tasks.
The first major feature group is "Full computers, not worktrees." Each fork is a real Linux box with its own filesystem, port forwarding to localhost, and your complete dev environment preinstalled. This is not just another git checkout; it is a fully functional machine that runs your app, services, and databases independently. The benefit is that agents can make changes to dependencies, edit the database schema, or break things without affecting other forks. Localhost port forwarding automatically follows the selected fork, so you can test changes in a browser or API client as if the agent were running on your machine. This isolation is crucial for correctness and parallel development.
The second feature group is "Isolation by default." Boxes.dev encourages spinning up a fresh cloud machine for every meaningful body of work. You can run as many agents as you want in parallel without configuring port numbers or managing resource limits. Each fork is created from a snapshot of your primary devbox, so every agent starts with your full dev environment already set up. Forks that go idle sleep automatically, consuming no usage. This design means you can fire off an agent for a quick bug fix, another for a new feature, and a third for a dependency update, all simultaneously, without stepping on each other's toes. The platform handles compute allocation and sleep cycles behind the scenes.
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Launch Date2026-06-05
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