Use case
Real Ubuntu
A clean Ubuntu machine with root and Docker for setups and experiments you'd rather not run on your own computer.
Some work shouldn't happen on the computer that holds your keys, your client code and your accounts: trying an unfamiliar install script, running a stack of containers, or letting an agent experiment with root. A shed machine is a clean Ubuntu 24.04 box with root and Docker, and deleting it deletes everything on it.
How it works
- Your agent starts a small machine (an S is $0.06/hr).
- It does the setup and the experiments there, with sudo and Docker, never on your computer.
- It shows you what it did and what it found, then deletes the machine unless you want to keep it.
Good to know
- Each machine is its own virtual machine on an isolated network: it can't reach your other machines, and they can't reach it. More on security.
- Want to see a web app it built? Share a preview link from the Ports panel, or forward the port over SSH.
- Windows users get real Linux without WSL or a local VM.
The prompt
Paste it into Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. The copy on the shed page adds the address and a new token for your account.
Use shed as a sandbox for what we're doing: use this project's shed machine if I have one (start it if it's stopped), or start one for it (size s) and do the setup and experiments there, not on this computer. It has root through sudo and Docker. Show me what you did and what you found, then delete the machine unless I want to keep it.Copy the prompt