> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://sandkiln.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# sandkiln docs

> Docs for sandkiln — a compute primitive for safely running untrusted or AI-generated code in hardware-isolated Firecracker microVMs.

Pick a starting point. Five ways into the same docs, by what you already know you need.

> **[New here](/getting-started/introduction)**
>
> [Introduction](/getting-started/introduction) → [Self-hosting quickstart](/getting-started/self-hosting) → your language: [JS/TS](/getting-started/js), [Python](/getting-started/python), [CLI](/getting-started/cli).

> **[Understand a capability](/concepts/sandbox-lifecycle)**
>
> [Core Concepts](/concepts/sandbox-lifecycle) — lifecycle, snapshots, naming, drives, images, networking, auth, preview.

> **[Have a specific task](/guides/run-untrusted-code)**
>
> [Guides](/guides/run-untrusted-code) — task-oriented, real-code recipes.

> **[Need exact signatures](/api-reference/http-api/overview)**
>
> [Reference](/api-reference/http-api/overview) — daemon HTTP API, JS/TS SDK, Python SDK, CLI.

> **[Curious how it's built](/internals/vsock-wire-protocol)**
>
> [Internals](/internals/vsock-wire-protocol) — one page per mechanism (vsock, the jailer, snapshots, sqlite, rate limiting, and ten more), each with a real request/response captured from the live daemon. Or the shorter [Architecture](/architecture/overview) tour first, if you want the map before the terrain.

Have an idea or found something wrong? Email [sumitkanpur2005@gmail.com](mailto:sumitkanpur2005@gmail.com).


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