Alternatives to boat
boat is an agent skill by davidondrej: Manage Boat (boat.dev, formerly Box by Ascii) cloud sandboxes via API, CLI, and SSH. If it doesn't fit your setup, these 12 agent skills cover similar ground. They are ordered by how closely they match boat and by our rank, which weighs adoption, freshness and documentation; money never changes the order. vercel-sandbox leads the list (published by the vendor; larger repository (44.5K stars)). 5 of them are published by the company behind the product. Each entry shows data reasons to switch, and you can open a side-by-side comparison with boat.
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boat
Manage Boat (boat.dev, formerly Box by Ascii) cloud sandboxes via API, CLI, and SSH.
12 alternatives
Ordered by how closely each matches boat (shared product, category or stated alternative) and by rank.
- 1vercel-sandbox
vercel-labsOfficial
Run agent-browser + Chrome inside Vercel Sandbox microVMs for browser automation from any Vercel-deployed app.
- Published by the vendor
- Larger repository (44.5K stars)
★ 44.5KLast active Oct 22, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 2sandbox-next
cloudflareOfficial
Build or maintain Cloudflare Sandbox apps on @cloudflare/sandbox@next (SDK 1.0 preview).
- Published by the vendor
★ 3.2KLast active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 3sandbox-stable
cloudflareOfficial
Build or maintain Cloudflare Sandbox apps on the stable @cloudflare/sandbox package.
- Published by the vendor
★ 3.2KLast active Oct 1, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 4holoscan-install-wheel
Holoscan Team <holoscan-team@nvidia.com>
Install Holoscan SDK 5.x CUDA 13 Python wheels in an isolated environment, choosing the full stack or version-matched components.
- Repository has 3.7K stars
- Active in the last 30 days
★ 3.7KLast active Oct 21, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 5web-upload-rce
s0ld13rr
File-upload abuse to code execution for web apps.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 883Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 6runtime-api-configs
OpenHands
Manage warm sandbox pools on OpenHands Enterprise by driving the runtime-api admin endpoints (list, save, delete warm runtime configurations) from a Python CLI.
- Supports Python
★ 173Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 7code-execution
QuixiAI
Run programs, shell commands, and scripts — compile and execute code, test programs in installed languages, work with files in the workspace
- Open source (MIT)
★ 621Last active Aug 29, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 8aws-lambda-microvms
awsOfficial
Builds, runs, debugs, and operates applications on AWS Lambda MicroVMs — Firecracker-isolated, snapshot-resumable serverless compute environments running…
- Published by the vendor
★ 3KLast active Oct 12, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 9databricks-execution-compute
databricksOfficial
Execute code and manage compute on Databricks: run Python/Scala/SQL/R via serverless, classic, or interactive clusters, and create/resize/delete clusters and…
- Published by the vendor
★ 369Last active Oct 23, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 10jupyter-live-kernel
taracodlabs
Execute code in a stateful Jupyter kernel session, maintaining variables across cells using hamelnb or jupyter CLI
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (Apache-2.0)
★ 863Last active Oct 19, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet - 11agentclash-challenge-pack-tools-sandbox
agentclash
Use when defining AgentClash challenge pack tool access, sandbox runtime needs, filesystem expectations, network policy, command execution, and secret…
- Open source (MIT)
★ 36Last active Aug 15, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
BFreshness: B–Security: not graded yet - 12stolz-mcp
Sergey360
Audit MCP context overhead or plan progressive tool discovery and code execution.
- Active in the last 30 days
- Open source (MIT)
★ 4Last active Oct 13, 2026Claude Code, Claude apps, Codex, Cursor +6
AFreshness: A–Security: not graded yet