Meshnet open-sources VM-backed localhost harness
Rhys Sullivan is open-sourcing Meshnet, a prototype coding harness where each chat runs in its own ephemeral VM but still feels like you’re developing on `localhost:3000`. The repo shows an Electron shell routing per-chat Vercel Sandboxes through a shared local URL, plus the prompt used to drive the experiment.
This is a strong systems demo, not a finished product: it makes remote compute disappear behind a familiar local-dev mental model. The interesting part is less “sandboxed chat” and more “preserve localhost ergonomics while isolating every session.”
- –Per-chat microVMs are a clean way to isolate state, cookies, and filesystem side effects between conversations
- –Keeping everything on `localhost:3000` removes the URL-sprawl problem that usually makes sandboxed dev feel clunky
- –The Electron + Vercel Sandbox stack is practical for prototyping, but it also means latency, cost, and backend dependency will decide whether this scales
- –Open-sourcing the prompt is the real multiplier here: it turns the repo from a one-off demo into something others can remix into agent workflows
- –This lands squarely in AI coding infrastructure, especially for agentic dev environments and local-first remote execution patterns
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2026-05-23
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2026-05-23
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