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Run up to 100 coding agents at once, each in its own sandbox

Lizard gives every coding agent its own isolated microVM that boots in about 238 ms. You hand Claude Code or Codex a task per sandbox, and the Pro plan runs up to 100 of them in parallel without the agents touching your laptop or each other.

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Source

@LizardBuild on X · 2026-10-17

Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-21.

What they did

Lizard gives every coding agent its own isolated microVM that boots in about 238 ms. You hand Claude Code or Codex a task per sandbox, and the Pro plan runs up to 100 of them in parallel without the agents touching your laptop or each other.

Result (as claimed)

Each agent works in a throwaway VM, so a bad command cannot damage your own machine.

Tools they used

Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo; OpenAI Codex: free plan, paid from $8/mo.

Set it up

  1. Pick a contained repo or task

    Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.

  2. Install and configure

    Set up Claude Code, OpenAI Codex. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.

  3. Run it on a real task

    Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.

  4. Add guardrails

    Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.

Copy the full setup prompt

Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.

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Goal: Run up to 100 coding agents at once, each in its own sandbox
What the original author did: Lizard gives every coding agent its own isolated microVM that boots in about 238 ms. You hand Claude Code or Codex a task per sandbox, and the Pro plan runs up to 100 of them in parallel without the agents touching your laptop or each other.
Reported result (as claimed by the author): Each agent works in a throwaway VM, so a bad command cannot damage your own machine.
Source: https://x.com/LizardBuild/status/2111492342754537792
Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex
Category: Dev & ops

Please:
1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like).
2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure.
3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data.
4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.

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Guides for this use case

How to run AI coding agents in a sandbox · How to run multiple coding agents together · How to vibe code an app with Claude Code · How to use Claude Code and Codex together

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