Not quite the same thing, but I wrote my own agent (as in a replacement for Claude Code) that uses SSH for all operations. That means I can run a very minimal VM (like 4GB RAM Oracle free tier), run the agent locally, and the agent only operates on remote files.

The limitation is that some Typescript builds run out of RAM (even with swap) and I can't use playwright, but still it's been useful.

It's fun writing an agent, too.

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memoriuaysj 3 days ago | parent [-]

oracle free tier seems to be 1GB RAM.

why dont you run the VM on your machine?

	▲	nl 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes that works too. But this way I can open the firewall, npm run dev and send the link of my new vibe coded security vulnerability/app to my friends without my computer running. Plus a VM for this, a container for that and soon my 32GB memory isn't enough. I offload aggressively.