Jason Liu, Instructor creator, asks if a serverless, snapshotted development environment can be hosted on Modal and accessed via SSH
The request targets reproducible, instant-start remote development environments.
Many users expressed enthusiasm for a serverless snapshotted Codex environment with SSH access because they see it as insanely useful for durable and controllable AI coding setups.
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@jxnlco @erikdunteman @AAAzzam
is there serverless snapshotted codex box as a service thats served on something like modal via ssh?
@charles_irl @erikdunteman @AAAzzam i'd love to be able to on click set up a codex remote / ssh that can be connected to via the desktop app or cli...
i basiclaly just have a personal mono repo that i use to manage my whole life, but i'd like to be able to access it via any of my 3 macbooks or iphone.
@jxnlco @erikdunteman @AAAzzam
@jxnlco sir.
@jxnlco @charles_irl @erikdunteman @AAAzzam This is the best one, paseo is good too and might be closer to what you imagine https://github.com/slopus/happy-cli
@jxnlco @charles_irl @erikdunteman @AAAzzam at the moment, I run @NousResearch hermes on an AWS instance for this. it's always running and pretty cheap.
it's nice not being limited to codex and being able to message it to do stuff while I'm on the go via slack etc.
for serious/in the loop work it's codex on laptop though
afaik nobody ships exactly that yet, a snapshotted codex box you just ssh into. Modal has all the primitives though, ephemeral sandboxes, snapshot restore, scale to zero. the missing layer is ssh as the front door since the SDK is exec first. honestly feels like a 200 line wrapper away from being a real product ngl
@jxnlco Crabbox? From @openclaw
@jxnlco lol that sounds like 5 different buzzwords got into a scifi teleporter together
do u actually need ssh or just want control?
@jxnlco There are too many similar products in this market, especially from various sandbox providers. I also built a similar product for my own use.
Currently, the most intuitive one for me is @RunloopAI, which allows different agents to be mounted when starting the sandbox.
@jxnlco Snapshotting Codex boxes and exposing them over SSH would be insanely useful. Treat environments like durable artifacts, not ephemeral sessions. Spin up in seconds, hibernate when idle, resume with full stat
@jxnlco Closest I found with Codex+sprite, but basically you can tell codex to use it to build this for you https://openrouter.ai/spawn
@jxnlco For what purpose?
@jxnlco i think you’re looking for @ssh_exe_dev
@jxnlco I mean, is self-hosted an option? 😛
Hetzner has been great for my CI. Just get codex to set up the cleanup.
@jxnlco @charles_irl @erikdunteman @AAAzzam Codex should make this easier. (Maybe they look into determinate systems and turso.)
I use a http://fly.io w/ nix, a repo for my life (bunch of markdown files mostly), and codex from my phone.
Obsidian sync to sync my repo but its hacky.
@jxnlco @charles_irl @erikdunteman @AAAzzam You can have AI code it to make it fit your use more, paseo is more malleable and happy has the better phone experience
@jxnlco Feels like the missing piece is lifecycle, not SSH. A useful service would need snapshot + warm resume + secrets scoping + cost controls, otherwise it turns into disposable VMs with extra branding.
@jxnlco I use @e2b it’s pretty nice overall, but mostly use it for ephemeral use-cases.