E2B Sandbox Review: Firecracker MicroVM for AI Agents
Ever asked an AI agent to write a Python script, then hesitated because you had no idea what pip install might pull in? Yeah, me too. AI agents are fantastic at generating code. Still, trusting them to execute it on your machine? I’ve debugged enough MCP tool calls to know better. That’s exactly why I went looking for E2B (12.8k ★ on GitHub) — an open-source sandbox that runs AI-generated code inside Firecracker microVMs. Not Docker containers. Not WASM runtimes. Actual microVMs, each with its own kernel, memory, and network stack, booting in under 200ms. ...