Show HN: Engrams, an open source alternative to Devin

Category: ai-ml

Tags: firecracker, ai-agents, self-hosted, microvm, orchestrator, sandbox

Score: 8.0/10 (Innovation: 8, Technical: 9, Documentation: 8, Utility: 7)

Engrams is a self-hosted orchestrator for AI coding agents that runs each agent in a Firecracker microVM, snapshots idle VMs, and restores them on demand. It provides production-grade isolation, cost-efficient idle sessions via deduplicated snapshots, and a full product stack including dashboard, CLI, and integrations, making it a compelling open-source alternative to hosted sandbox services like Devin.

Target audience: devops, backend devs, ml engineers, platform teams

Repository: https://github.com/cortexapps/engrams · Rust · AGPL-3.0 · 58 stars

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