{"slug": "show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service", "title": "Show HN: BoxLite - Micro-VMs as a library, a server, or a distributed service", "summary": "Polygala released BoxLite, an open-source micro-VM runtime written in Rust that can be embedded as a library, run as a standalone server, or clustered as a distributed service for AI agent workloads. BoxLite provides sandbox-grade isolation with warm starts of around 100ms, and the code is available at github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite with documentation at docs.boxlite.ai.", "body_md": "We're Polygala, and we believe micro-VMs are the right primitive for AI agents. They bundle everything an agent needs into one boundary: sandbox-grade isolation, near-native performance, fast boot, and a clean unit for scaling cloud resources to agents on demand.\n\nBoxLite is a micro-VM runtime in Rust, designed to span the full range of agent deployments:\n\n- Library - embed it in-process and ship sandboxing as a feature.\n\n- Server - run it standalone for multi-tenant workloads.\n\n- Distributed service - cluster it for serverless-scale execution.  \n\nOne repo. Warm start around 100ms. From sandbox to serverless, from security to scale.\n\nRepo: [https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite](https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite)\n\nDocs: [https://docs.boxlite.ai/](https://docs.boxlite.ai/)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service", "canonical_source": "https://blog.boxlite.ai/show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service", "published_at": "2026-09-29 17:16:30.474469+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-29 17:16:32.230364+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-infrastructure", "developer-tools", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["Polygala", "BoxLite", "Rust", "github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite", "docs.boxlite.ai"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-boxlite-micro-vms-as-a-library-a-server-or-a-distributed-service.jsonld"}}