Show HN: Container Use for Agents

[lmeyerov]

Interesting. I have been doing a simple man's version of multiple git clone folders and 'docker compose -p'. Making that smoother is attractive, esp if can be made opaque for our more junior teammates.

On one end, I have been curious about getting multiple agents to work on the same branch, but realized I can just wait till they do that natively.

More so, all this feels like a dead end. I think OpenAI and github are right to push to remote development, so these don't matter. Eg, mark up a PR or branch in GitHub, and come back as necessary, and do it all from my phone. If I want an IDE, it can be remote ssh.

[shykes]

Hi all, we open sourced this live on stage today at AI Engineer World Fair (great event by the way).

If you're interested, here's the keynote recording: https://www.youtube.com/live/U-fMsbY-kHY?t=3400s

[steeve]

Very cool that this runs as a MCP server, very cool demo

[dboreham]

Seems odd that the LLM is so clever it can write programs to drive any API. But so dumb that it needs a new special purpose protocol proxy to access anything behind such an API...

[rahimnathwani]

I'm curious: what do containers add over and above whatever you'd get using worktrees on their own?

[shykes]

They're complementary. git worktrees isolate file edits; containers isolate execution: building, testing, running dev instances..

container-use combines both forms of isolation: containers and git worktrees in a seamless system that agents can use to get work done.

[brunoqc]

I would guess isolation/safety.

[kamikaz1k]

Page is crashing my mobile chrome.

[akshayKMR]

Freezing for me on Safari desktop. I think the culprit is the SVG based demo in the README.md