smol-machines / smolvm
An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.
- Stars
- 7,038 stars
- Forks
- 361 forks
- Language
- Rust
- License
- APACHE-2.0
- Created
- Dec 18, 2025
- Last push
- Nov 8, 2026
- Updated
- Nov 8, 2026
Why these Tags: an agent read the README and quoted it
- Agent sandbox from the description:
An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally.
- Virtualization from the readme:
Save a running machine mid-execution, rewind it, or branch it into copies that keep running from the same point.
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Admitted to the Repository Index on Nov 7, 2026: +118 stars in 7 days.
Star History
185 days recorded, May 8, 2026 – Nov 8, 2026 (UTC). Net change +3,914 stars.
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It gained stars on each of the 185 days recorded since May 8, 2026.
Its largest 7 days were Aug 10, 2026 to Aug 16, 2026: 723 stars.
In the 30 days to Nov 8, 2026 it got 402 stars, 40% fewer than in the 30 days before.
- Created on the Repository Host
- +80 stars in one day
- Reached 5,000 stars, 240 days after it was created
- Largest star day recorded: +327 stars
- +116 stars in one day
- Release v1.32.2
- Release v1.32.3
- Release v1.32.4
- Release v1.33.0
- Entered the Repository Index: +118 stars in 7 days
- Release v1.34.0
- Latest push
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Forks and pushes
From 2 Observations, Nov 8, 2026 – Nov 9, 2026. Forks +1. AwesomeRepos saw a new push on 1 of 1 days.
- Nov 9, 2026: new push
A filled day: the last push time changed since the Observation before it.
Health facts
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Maintenance
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Yes: Not archived
GitHub does not mark the repository as archived. Source
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Yes: A push in the last 90 days
Last push on 2026-11-08, 0 days ago. Source
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Yes: Commits in the last 13 weeks
944 commits on the default branch in the last 13 weeks (GitHub, 2026-11-09). Source
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Commits in 43 of the last 52 weeks (GitHub, 2026-11-09). Source
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Releases
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Yes: A release in the last 365 days
Newest release v1.34.0 on 2026-11-08, 1 day ago. 10 or more releases in the last 365 days. Source
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Yes: The newest release tag is a semantic version
The newest release tag is v1.34.0. Source
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No: A changelog file at the root
No changelog file at the root (GitHub, 2026-11-09).
Security practice
1 of 1 check-
Yes: A security policy
GitHub finds a security policy (GitHub, 2026-11-09). Source
OpenSSF Scorecard has no result for this repository from the last 90 days.
Community files
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Yes: A licence
GitHub finds the licence APACHE-2.0. Source
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No: A contributing guide
GitHub finds no contributing guide (GitHub, 2026-11-09).
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No: A code of conduct
GitHub finds no code of conduct (GitHub, 2026-11-09).
Dependencies in the index
This section shows the packages that connect this repository to other repositories in the index.
The GitHub dependency graph of this repository names 581 direct packages (scanned on Nov 9, 2026). Packages from 13 other repositories in the index are among them.
No scanned repository names a package from this repository.
Uses (in the index) · 13
- tokio-rs/tokio 34K
Cargo: tokio, tokio-macros, tokio-stream, tokio-util
- tokio-rs/axum 28K
Cargo: axum, axum-core, axum-macros
- clap-rs/clap 17K
Cargo: clap, clap_builder, clap_complete, clap_derive and 1 more
- hyperium/hyper 16K
Cargo: hyper
- rust-lang/cargo 16K
Cargo: home
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Cargo: windows-link, windows-sys, windows-targets, windows_aarch64_gnullvm and 7 more
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Cargo: reqwest
- serde-rs/serde 11K
Cargo: serde, serde_core, serde_derive
- rust-bakery/nom 10K
Cargo: nom
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Cargo: js-sys, wasm-bindgen, wasm-bindgen-futures, wasm-bindgen-macro and 3 more
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- rustls/rustls 7.7K
Cargo: rustls
- briansmith/ring 4.1K
Cargo: ring
- RustCrypto/hashes 2.3K
Cargo: sha1, sha2
Used by (in the index) · 0
None.
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Observations
Latest Observation, Nov 9, 2026: 7,038 stars, 361 forks, last push Nov 8, 2026, not archived. One of 2 Observations since Nov 8, 2026.