How Rippling builds agents: lightweight harness with on-demand heavier environments
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-12
A Rippling engineer describes their agent architecture: a lightweight harness outside the sandbox with a virtualized shell and filesystem for everyday work, provisioning heavier environments on demand when tasks need more. Cloudflare makes this practical and economical; 'lean and flexible' is the guiding principle.
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