Sandbase Harness
Focus: mcp and runtime. Shares ai agents and self-hosted with Dormice. A framework, not an AI tool. Adds macOS and Windows. Rated 4.4 (Dormice: 4.6).
FrameworkFreemacOS, Windows
4.4Visit
AI Tool
Dormice
The SQLite of agent sandboxes — self-hosted, E2B-compatible. One machine, sandboxes that live forever, idle costs nothing.
Rating
4.6 / 5
Pricing
Free
Difficulty
Advanced
Works on
Linux, Web, Cross-Platform
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What is Dormice?
Dormice is a self-hosted, E2B-compatible sandbox platform for AI agents. You run it on your own machine, and each sandbox is permanent — it cools down through active, frozen, stopped and archived states, then wakes in milliseconds when needed. A single binary bundles the daemon, SQLite ledger and API; the official e2b SDK works by changing two URLs. It also ships with a skill in the Agent Skills format so coding agents can install and operate it themselves.
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Pros: what Dormice does well
- Self-hosted, so data stays on your own infrastructure
- E2B-compatible SDK means minimal migration from cloud sandboxes
- Permanent sandboxes with near-instant wake from frozen state
- Single-binary deployment with no Kubernetes required
Cons: where it falls short
- Still early development — not production-ready yet
- Requires a machine you already pay for to be cost-effective
- Operator knowledge needed to secure the daemon and network
Who Dormice is for
Developers and platform teams who run AI agents that need long-lived, low-cost sandboxes and want to keep data off third-party clouds.
Who can skip it
Teams that prefer fully managed, pay-per-second cloud sandboxes or only run short, stateless agent tasks.
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