Paddock
An open-source, self-hosted platform that gives AI agents persistent Linux desktop computers and locked-down sandboxes on a single VPS you own.
An open-source, self-hosted platform that gives AI agents persistent Linux desktop computers and locked-down sandboxes on a single VPS you own.
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- What is Paddock?
- An open-source, self-hosted platform that gives AI agents persistent Linux desktop computers and locked-down sandboxes on a single VPS you own.
- Who is it for?
- AI application developers who need isolated Linux environments for multiple agents running on a self-managed VPS.
- Pricing
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Product information
What this product does
Paddock gives each AI agent its own Linux computer or a locked-down sandbox, on one VPS you own. Free and open source, MIT licensed.
Sourced from tony1908.github.io
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Platforms
- Web
- API
Company & Maker
Who built Paddock?
- Company
- Antonio Santiago Dueñas
- Product
- An open-source, self-hosted platform that gives AI agents persistent Linux desktop computers and locked-down sandboxes on a single VPS you own.
- Live since
- Oct 2026
- Founders
- Antonio Santiago Dueñas - Maker
Some facts above are based on publicly available information and may have changed.
“open source version of a sandbox for your agents.”
Problem Solved
What problem does Paddock solve?
Developers running coding agents such as Claude Code or Codex need a safe, persistent place for those agents to work without risking their own machine. Running untrusted code locally or building custom isolation takes manual effort and offers little control over network access or rollback. Paddock lets you install on one VPS, create a box from the CLI, dashboard or HTTP API, and hand it to an agent, with network limits, run limits and snapshots built in. For example, you can start a deny-all-network box that runs npm test for an agent and delete it afterward.
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Paddock provides each AI agent with a separate Linux computer or locked-down sandbox on a VPS you own. It is free, open-source software under the MIT license, suited to developers managing their own agent infrastructure.
Who should use
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Best-fit workflows
- Run an agent's test suite in a network-locked sandbox
- Let an agent build and visually verify a GUI app
- Scrape documentation with an allowlisted network
- Automate box creation from your own code
- Creates a dedicated Linux environment for an AI coding agent working on a source-code repository.
- Isolates an agent running a test script inside a locked-down sandbox.
Pricing reality
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Free and open source under the MIT license.
Actual cost
Software licensing is free. VPS hosting, compute resources, storage, maintenance, and administration remain the user's responsibility.
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Pricing reality
Last updated Oct 2026
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