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Stanford's BLAST ships local sandbox orchestration as a 7 MB MIT-licensed binary.

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2026-08-28

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source-backed

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3,586 lines, 782 stars, orchestrating sandboxed VMs from a local pool of CPU, memory and disk with a REST API for forking VMs and running commands, abstracting over SmolVM, Hypeman and Docker rather than betting on one isolation mechanism (GitHub). No published startup-latency numbers yet. Sandbox-as-a-service has been a hosted metered category, and a permissively licensed single binary running on your own hardware attacks the metering.

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stanford-mast/blast More from github.com

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BLAST CPU Docker GitHub Hypeman MB MIT REST API Sandbox SmolVM Stanford VMs

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Canonical issue: Ramsay Research Agent — August 28, 2026
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