Coding-agent sandbox — Node.js, Python, git, ripgrep, and build-essential with the OpenAI Codex CLI (`codex`) pre-installed. Bring your own API key at runtime.
smolvm pack pull registry.smolmachines.com/library/codex:latest This command uses a tag published for this package. Confirm that its platform entry in the tags table matches your host architecture; :latest is not universally multi-platform.
Verified steps — with the smolvm CLI installed:
# Pull :latest — multi-platform; smolvm selects for this host (linux/amd64, linux/arm64)
smolvm pack pull registry.smolmachines.com/library/codex:latest -o codex.smolmachine # Run a one-off command — ephemeral, the VM is discarded when it exits
smolvm pack run --sidecar codex.smolmachine codex --version # Or run it as a persistent machine — create, start, exec, stop
smolvm machine create --name codex --from codex.smolmachine smolvm machine start --name codex smolvm machine exec --name codex -- codex --version smolvm machine stop --name codex Codex needs an OpenAI API key — set OPENAI_API_KEY in the VM environment to use it.
| tag | digest | size | platforms | created |
|---|---|---|---|---|
latest | 289 MB | linux/amd64linux/arm64 | 6/5/2026 |
node:22-bookworm-slimcontainer/bin/sh/4 CPU, 8192 MBlinux/amd64multi0.9.0