smolvm passes Simon Willison's Fable 5 agent test as a secure sandbox
yawnxyz · x · 2026-08-24
binsquares shares that smolvm 1.8.3 got a thumbs up from Simon Willison's Fable 5 research agent: it is well suited for sandboxing untrusted Python and JavaScript data transformations using hardware-isolated VMs rather than shared-kernel containers. See the full blog post for details.
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