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@tanstack/ai-sandbox-e2b runs harness adapters (Claude Code, Codex, Grok
Build, OpenCode, ACP agents) inside managed E2B Firecracker
microVMs through the same SandboxProvider / SandboxHandle contract as the
Daytona, Vercel, Upstash Box, and Blaxel providers. Swap the provider and the
rest of the sandbox definition stays the same.

🎯 Changes

  • New package packages/ai-sandbox-e2b (e2bSandbox()): native filesystem
    API, exec/spawn with a real sandbox pid, native cwd/env (no
    export K=V; in command strings), writable stdin, separate stdout/stderr,
    preview URLs (token-gated when public traffic is off), native snapshots,
    restore, fork, resume-by-id (also wakes a paused sandbox), and
    network: 'deny' mapped to E2B's internet switch.
  • killableProcesses: true is measured, not asserted. envd's own kill is a
    SIGKILL to the shell pid and a backgrounded ( … ) & wait child survived
    it, so every command runs as a setsid group leader and kill() runs
    kill -KILL -- -<pid>. The shared journal conformance kill case passes.
  • Sandboxes default to a 30 minute lifetime and are killed when it elapses.
  • Docs: docs/sandbox/providers.md (table row, ## E2B section,
    killableProcesses and writableStdin tables), packages/ai-sandbox/README.md.
  • Changeset: @tanstack/ai-sandbox-e2b minor.

Not in this PR: the lstat shell probe and the bounded stream queue are a
third copy of what Daytona and Upstash Box carry. Hoisting them into
@tanstack/ai-sandbox is a separate refactor.

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  • Docs: I updated docs/ for this change, or this change is not user-facing.
  • Changeset: I added a changeset (pnpm changeset), or this PR does not change a published package.

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  • This change affects published code, and I have generated a changeset.
  • This change is docs/CI/dev-only (no release).

Testing

Commands run. pnpm test:pr passes (all 11 targets, 92 projects, kiira
1237 snippets). In packages/ai-sandbox-e2b: 58 unit tests pass without a
key; with E2B_API_KEY the live suite plus runJournalConformance pass
16/16. No sandboxes were left behind (Sandbox.list empty after the run).
Not run: the Playwright E2E suite. This PR adds no LLM adapter and changes no
chat/stream/tool code, so the E2E matrix does not cover a sandbox provider
(same as the Upstash Box and Blaxel provider PRs).

Manual test.

  1. export E2B_API_KEY=... (free tier is enough).
  2. pnpm --filter @tanstack/ai-sandbox-e2b test:lib
  3. Read the journal conformance — e2b block: the case
    "kills the sandbox-side process, not just the host's view of it" runs
    against a real sandbox and passes.

How this PR makes testing easy. Mocked unit tests for provider and handle
(tests/provider.test.ts, tests/handle.test.ts, tests/lstat.test.ts), a
credential-gated live suite (tests/e2b.test.ts) that measures stdin, kill,
abort, snapshot, fork, resume, network deny, and the traffic token, and the
shared runJournalConformance registration.

Risk / rollback

Low: a new opt-in package, no change to @tanstack/ai-sandbox or other
providers. Rollback is a revert. Known limits, documented: kill() always
sends SIGKILL; a custom template without setsid (util-linux) fails every
command with exit 127 instead of silently losing group kill.

Maintenance

E2B is the vendor here. A maintainer contact from the E2B side for this
package is being confirmed and will be added to this PR.

Public API change

New package only; nothing in an existing package changes.

Before

import { daytonaSandbox } from '@tanstack/ai-sandbox-daytona'

const provider = daytonaSandbox({ apiKey: process.env.DAYTONA_API_KEY })

After

import { e2bSandbox } from '@tanstack/ai-sandbox-e2b'

const provider = e2bSandbox({ apiKey: process.env.E2B_API_KEY })

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added an E2B-backed sandbox provider for TanStack AI.
    • Supports isolated sandboxes with filesystem access, command execution, background processes, stdin, snapshots, restore, resume, fork, Git, and port connections.
    • Supports network access policies, traffic-token-protected previews, configurable lifetimes, and automatic timeout handling.
  • Documentation

    • Added installation, configuration, usage, and capability guidance for the E2B provider.
    • Added E2B to the sandbox provider comparison and package documentation.

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Walkthrough

Adds the @tanstack/ai-sandbox-e2b package. The provider maps TanStack AI sandbox operations to E2B managed sandboxes, including filesystem access, commands, process control, snapshots, forks, resume, network policy, and preview URLs. Tests and documentation cover the implementation.

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E2B sandbox provider

Layer / File(s) Summary
Provider contract and lifecycle
packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/package.json, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/provider.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/index.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/tests/provider.test.ts
Defines E2B configuration and maps sandbox creation, restoration, resumption, destruction, timeout, metadata, environment, workdir, network, and abort behavior to the E2B SDK.
Handle filesystem and process operations
packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/handle.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/tests/handle.test.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/tests/lstat.test.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/tests/e2b.test.ts
Implements filesystem operations, command execution, streaming output, stdin, abort handling, output limits, process-group termination, path mapping, and lstat.
Snapshots, forks, ports, and capability validation
packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/handle.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/tests/e2b.test.ts, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/tests/journal.conformance.test.ts
Adds snapshots, forks, port connections, traffic-token headers, network denial, destruction behavior, lifecycle validation, and journal conformance coverage.
Documentation and release metadata
.changeset/add-ai-sandbox-e2b.md, packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/README.md, docs/sandbox/providers.md, packages/ai-sandbox/README.md, docs/config.json
Documents installation, configuration, capabilities, provider integration, and E2B behavior. Adds the package release changeset and documentation metadata update.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Feature

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Caller
  participant E2BProvider
  participant E2BSDK
  participant E2BHandle
  Caller->>E2BProvider: create sandbox
  E2BProvider->>E2BSDK: Sandbox.create
  E2BProvider->>E2BHandle: prepare workdir
  Caller->>E2BHandle: execute command or filesystem operation
  E2BHandle->>E2BSDK: perform E2B operation
  E2BSDK-->>E2BHandle: return result or stream
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Sandboxes configured with a custom workspace root can initialize and run setup in the wrong directory. Fix the workspace mapping before merge.

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In `@packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/provider.ts`:
- Line 85: Validate that the configured apiUrl uses HTTPS before assigning it to
opts.apiUrl in the provider configuration flow. Reject non-HTTPS URLs before
creating connection options, preventing apiKey—including E2B_API_KEY-derived
keys—from being forwarded over insecure transport.
- Line 135: Update the create() flow around Sandbox.create() and
sandbox.files.makeDir() to race each pending operation against input.signal so
aborted calls reject promptly; if Sandbox.create() resolves after abortion, kill
the newly created sandbox before rejecting. Add a pending-createMock test that
verifies prompt rejection and cleanup.
- Around line 163-176: Update restoreSnapshot to create the sandbox through the
shared abort-aware sandbox creation helper rather than calling Sandbox.create
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🟠 Major · Kill the process group when wait() fails with a non-exit error. · packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/handle.ts:393-441

393-441: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Kill the process group when wait() fails with a non-exit error. E2B’s CommandHandle.wait() can propagate a transport error while the sandbox process remains running. E2BHandle.exitCodeOf(handle) rethrows that error, and spawnProcess then only closes its queues. The ACP transport path also suppresses the rejected wait() promise without calling handle.kill(). The remote process can therefore continue until the sandbox timeout.

Call killGroup(handle) in a catch around E2BHandle.exitCodeOf(handle) before rethrowing the original error.

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caught, killGroup(handle) is called before rethrowing the original error, and
the existing queue cleanup remains intact.
🟡 Minor · Handle late sandbox.kill() failures at the shared cleanup boundary. · packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/provider.ts:83-103

83-103: 🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle late sandbox.kill() failures at the shared cleanup boundary. Sandbox is imported from e2b, and its instance kill() returns a promise that can reject on SDK or provider errors. The existing .catch(() => undefined) prevents an unhandled rejection, but it silently discards the failure. The late-created sandbox may remain allocated. Report the failure and route it to retry or cleanup handling. Both create and restoreSnapshot use createSandbox.

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createSandbox’s late sandbox cleanup so failures from sandbox.kill() are
reported and forwarded to the established retry or cleanup handling instead of
being silently swallowed. Preserve cleanup after an aborted creation and ensure
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…non-exit error

A dropped event stream makes the SDK's wait() reject before it knows the
exit code, while the sandbox-side process may still be running. exec and
spawn now SIGKILL the group before surfacing that error instead of leaving
the process to run until the sandbox expires.
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Follow-up on the two out-of-diff comments from the last CodeRabbit pass:

  • Kill the group when wait() fails with a non-exit error — good catch, fixed in 324735b. exitCodeOf is now an instance method shared by exec and spawn; anything that isn't a CommandExitError triggers killGroup before the error surfaces, so a dropped event stream no longer leaves the sandbox-side process running until the sandbox expires. Added a unit test that makes the fake wait() reject with a generic error and checks the group kill for both paths.
  • Late sandbox.kill() failure in createSandbox — leaving as is. By that point the caller has already been released with the abort error, and the provider contract has no channel to report a background cleanup failure to. The exposure is bounded by timeoutMs (30 min default) with onTimeout: 'kill', and this matches how the other providers treat cleanup failures (e.g. box.delete().catch(...) in Upstash Box).

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🟠 Major · Map WorkspaceDefinition.root into the E2B workspace path.

packages/ai-sandbox-e2b/src/provider.ts:105-212
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Map WorkspaceDefinition.root into the E2B workspace path. defineSandbox passes the workspace to E2BProvider.create and restoreSnapshot, but both methods ignore input.workspace. prepare creates only the configured workdir, and E2BHandle.abs() remaps only /workspace; a path such as /repo remains /repo. Bootstrap can therefore check, clone, or run setup against /repo even though E2B prepared /home/user/workspace. Derive the per-handle mapping from input.workspace.root, and preserve it across restore and resume.

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E2BProvider.create and restoreSnapshot to derive the workspace path from
input.workspace.root, pass that path into prepare and E2BHandle so abs() maps
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On the WorkspaceDefinition.root comment from the latest CodeRabbit pass: leaving this one as is, and I think it belongs outside this PR.

The contract only defines one virtual root, /workspace. Core (resolveHarnessCwd, mapVirtualWorkspacePath) remaps that prefix through handle.workspaceRoot and treats a custom workspace.root as a literal path inside the sandbox (bootstrap checks ${root}/.git, the watcher and snapshot code take it verbatim). None of the existing providers read input.workspace; the E2B abs() mapping is the same as Upstash Box's. So root: '/repo' behaves on E2B exactly as it does on Daytona or Upstash today.

Mapping workspace.root onto the provider workdir only in this package would give E2B different path semantics from every sibling and from resolveHarnessCwd. If that mapping is wanted, it should land in @tanstack/ai-sandbox for all providers at once. Happy to open an issue for it if maintainers agree.

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