Running Self-Hosted AI Agents on Oxide

Oxide explains that AI agents should run in virtual machines rather than containers for stronger isolation, with an orchestrator VM provisioning ephemeral VMs for each agent session and cleaning them up afterward. The post walks through Claude Code self-hosted environments, where a spawn-runner hook creates ephemeral VMs and a separate reaper deletes stopped ones, and Amp self-hosted orbs, where a dispatch script handles spawn, pause, and delete operations. It also outlines future work on security, multi-rack scale, cold-start latency, and a possible microVM primitive.