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Auto-sleep for agent machines: telling busy from idle
How shedix decides an agent's machine is idle: what it counts every 30 seconds, what it refuses to count, how quiet idle really is, and how others decide.
Seven coding-agent disasters, and which ones a separate machine would have stopped
Seven real incidents where coding agents deleted files, disks or databases, where each agent ran, and which ones a separate machine would have stopped.
What a coding agent's computer costs, compared hour for hour
A 4 vCPU, 8 GB agent machine priced across sandboxes, devboxes, VPSes and shedix as of 2026-11-02, with idle rules, what survives a stop, and caps.
Container, microVM or full VM: choosing a box for a coding agent
What containers, gVisor, microVMs and full VMs each put between a coding agent and your computer, when the agent needs Docker, and what none of them fix.
Copying an agent's machine: disk clones and snapshots on Google Cloud, measured
How shedix copies a set-up machine for more agents on Compute Engine: a disk clone for one copy, a snapshot for several, a flush first, and the timings.
Home server, VPS or cloud VM: where to keep your coding agent
A computer at home, a monthly VPS or an hourly cloud VM for your coding agent: the cost at 4 hours a day, 8 hours a day and always on, and what can break.
tmux for coding agents: the commands that matter
The tmux commands that keep agent work on a remote machine safe to repeat, from guarded starts and logs to port waits, reading panes and reboots.
VS Code on a remote machine: Remote-SSH, code-server or a terminal
Three ways to edit code on a remote machine, what each one installs and where its extensions run, and which keeps your laptop out of an agent's reach.
Why every shedix machine is a whole VM, not a pod
Why shedix gives each machine its own VM instead of a container on a shared cluster, what that gives an agent, and what it costs in boot time and density.
What an always-on agent machine costs
What an agent machine costs by the hour and month at shedix's prices, what leaving it on adds up to, and how auto-sleep, stopping and deleting change it.
Run several coding agents at once with git worktrees
Give each coding agent its own branch and folder with git worktrees, run each one in its own tmux session, and see where a laptop runs out of room.
Give your coding agent its own machine
What a coding agent can reach on your main computer, what Claude Code and Codex permission modes and sandboxes cover, and why a separate VM is cleaner.