E2B

The infrastructure layer that runs code an agent wrote without a human reviewing it - the isolation primitives (container, gVisor, microVM), the lifecycle a sandbox exposes, and how E2B, Modal and Daytona differ on the dimensions that actually break a deployment.

Read the E2B guide

Where E2B sits

How this component relates to the rest of the stack. Items without a link are not covered here yet.

Depends on

Must be present for this to run

Linux

Deployed with

Commonly run alongside

Claude Code

Alternatives

Solves a similar problem differently

Modal
Daytona