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Every Skydive agent has its own computer: an isolated Linux machine in the cloud, provisioned on demand and separate from every other agent’s. Anything you can do on a computer, your agent can do there. That is what separates an agent from a chatbot. It is not describing the work to you, it is doing the work on a machine.

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What is on it

Browser

A real browser it drives. Fill in forms, click through dashboards, pull what has no API.

Files

A shared folder you both read and write. Deliverables land here.

Terminal

A full shell. Run code, install packages, drive command-line tools.

Search

Search the web and fetch pages, without opening a browser.

Apps & webserver

Host a live web app at a URL you can visit.

Storage

A managed Postgres database for anything that has to persist.

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It keeps working when you stop

The computer is not your laptop, so nothing depends on your laptop staying awake. Close the lid and the agent keeps going: a long build finishes, a routine fires at 3am, a browser session works through a queue. The sandbox sleeps when idle and wakes on demand. Work that must survive a restart goes in the agent’s repo, its files, or storage.

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Two computers, one job

Some work lives on your machine instead: a repo you have checked out, a dev server on localhost, a tool only installed locally. Portal is the bridge. The agent reads what it needs from your machine, then moves the work up to its own computer and carries on.

Sizes

How much machine an agent gets, and how it asks for more.

Network controls

What the computer can reach on the internet, and how that is governed.