Snapshots and Copy-on-Write: The Economics of Agent Sandboxes
Agent sandboxes get expensive because most platforms size them for the resources an agent requests, not the resources it actually uses. Snapshots and copy-on-write flip that equation: instead of paying for a full 128 GiB disk and 16 GiB of RAM per session, you pay only for the base image plus the small set of divergences each agent creates. The result is a cost model that scales with real usage, letting a single host run dozens of isolated agents instead of a handful. ...