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shuru

Run AI agents in local-first microVM sandboxes

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Shuru runs lightweight Linux microVMs locally for sandboxed AI agent execution. On macOS it uses Apple's Virtualization.framework; on Linux ARM64 it uses KVM. Sandboxes are ephemeral by default, with no Docker dependency, and can be checkpointed and restored as named snapshots.

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