# About BoxLite

BoxLite is a microVM runtime for AI agents. It ships in two forms that share one
SDK surface and one core API: an Apache 2.0 library you embed and run yourself,
and a managed cloud that runs the same boxes on our fleet.

## The runtime

A box is a real virtual machine with its own Linux kernel, isolated in hardware
— KVM on Linux, Hypervisor.framework on macOS, WSL2 on Windows — rather than a
shared-kernel container. That distinction is the point: agent-generated code is
untrusted code, and container escape is a different risk class from VM escape.
Images are where the two forms differ: run the runtime yourself and any OCI
image works unmodified, while the managed cloud currently offers a curated set.
Boxes boot in milliseconds either way, and their state (packages, files,
environment) survives stop and restart or can be snapshotted and forked
copy-on-write.

## Open source and cloud

The open-source runtime is the whole runtime, not a demo tier. It runs
in-process with no daemon, no control plane, no account and no data leaving the
machine, which is what makes it usable on a laptop, in CI, on-prem or
air-gapped.

BoxLite Cloud runs those same boxes as a hosted service, reached over a REST URL
with an API key. It adds the operational parts you would otherwise build:
managed volumes that outlive a box, idle-stop with wake-on-access, and capacity
you do not provision. Moving between the two is a change of endpoint, not a
rewrite.

## Built for agents to use directly

BoxLite publishes machine-readable descriptions of itself so an agent can
integrate without a human reading the docs first: https://boxlite.ai/llms.txt for a
summary, and https://boxlite.ai/agent.md for a complete guide whose code samples are
executed against the live API before each release.

- Source: https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite
- Documentation: https://docs.boxlite.ai
- Contact: https://boxlite.ai/contact

## Pages

- [BoxLite — The managed cloud for AI agents](https://boxlite.ai) — Hosted microVMs for AI agents: compute, networking, a filesystem and a database, on BoxLite's fleet or your own.
- [BoxLite Open Source — the local-first embedded runtime for AI agents](https://boxlite.ai/oss) — Apache 2.0 microVMs as a library. No daemon, no cloud, no root — on your laptop, your cluster, or your customer's machine.
- [About BoxLite](https://boxlite.ai/about) — What BoxLite is, how the open-source runtime and the managed cloud relate, and who builds it.
- [Contact BoxLite](https://boxlite.ai/contact) — Support email, Discord, GitHub issues and sales — every channel that reaches the BoxLite team.

## Machine-readable files

- [/llms.txt](https://boxlite.ai/llms.txt) — Site summary and links, llms.txt format
- [/agent.md](https://boxlite.ai/agent.md) — Full guide for coding agents using BoxLite Cloud
- [/sitemap.xml](https://boxlite.ai/sitemap.xml) — All indexable pages
- [/robots.txt](https://boxlite.ai/robots.txt) — Crawl policy

## Elsewhere

- [Documentation](https://docs.boxlite.ai)
- [Console](https://app.boxlite.ai)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/boxlite-ai/boxlite)
- [Discord](https://go.boxlite.ai/discord)