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Prerequisites

An OpenComputer API key and the SDK installed. See Introduction for install instructions.
Grab your API key from app.opencomputer.dev

Create Your First Sandbox

Running this will print:
Your sandboxes stay alive as long as you need them. They don’t shut down after a command finishes — you can keep running commands, installing packages, and building projects for hours or days. Sandboxes only stop when you explicitly kill them or when the idle timeout expires (default 5 minutes, configurable).

Next Steps

Elastic Compute

Scale memory and CPU at runtime based on workload

Upload & Download Files

Read, write, and transfer files to and from sandboxes

Custom Sandboxes

Build custom environments with your own packages and tools

Checkpoints

Snapshot and fork VMs for parallel experimentation