Smol Machines

Smol Machines — the app-store front door for the smolmachines VM engine. It lets an agent spin up fast, hardware-isolated Linux microVMs on demand (sub-second boot, real hypervisor isolation — not shared-kernel containers), then run workloads in a disposable sandbox. Free to use. Portable .smolmachine artifacts run identically on macOS and Linux, locally or in the cloud.

Use it to: - Run untrusted or AI-generated code safely, with networking off by default - Give an agent a real Linux shell — a stateful, isolated execution backend - Automate headless browsers (GPU-accelerated) for scraping, screenshots, and web tasks - Run GPU/compute jobs via Vulkan with container-like speed - Spin up disposable dev sandboxes — a clean VM per task, torn down after - Keep persistent dev VMs — installed packages survive restarts - Run CI-style jobs — build, test, lint in clean environments - Fan out parallel ephemeral workers thanks to sub-second boot - Analyze malware / suspicious files in a throwaway environment - Build once, run anywhere — same artifact local, cloud, or self-hosted

Discover the live method surface at runtime with smolmachines.help, which lists each method's parameters and latency class.