Quick start

At the end you have a machine named dev, a shell on it, and the commands to pause, resume, and delete it.

Install the CLI

npx instabox@latest

The command signs you in, installs the instabox CLI, and adds the instabox skills to your coding agent.

Start a machine

instabox create --name dev
instabox ssh dev                 # open a shell
instabox exec dev -- uname -a    # or run one command

You can also ask your agent to “create an instabox machine and get me into it”.

Pause or delete the machine

instabox suspend dev    # pause: files, memory and processes are kept
instabox resume dev     # pick up where you left off
instabox rm dev         # delete it and its files

npx instabox@latest sh does the first two steps in one go.

Concepts

The machine states (running, paused, and stopped) and the other words the CLI uses.

SDK quick start

The same steps from TypeScript or HTTP.

Get started

Use cases

Machines

Access

Security

Account

Reference

Concepts

SDK quick start