BoxHaven runs persistent remote dev machines — cloud VMs — for AI agents like Claude Code and Codex, and is self-hostable.
Yes, BoxHaven is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license.
BoxHaven is free to use.
Yes, BoxHaven can be self-hosted (the source is available under the AGPL-3.0 license).
BoxHaven provides persistent remote dev machines — cloud VMs — for AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex, and is self-hostable. It is licensed AGPL-3.0, a strong/network copyleft license: network use of a modified version triggers source-sharing obligations, which matters for anyone running it as a hosted or SaaS offering. It is nascent (6 stars).
Long-running agents need somewhere durable to run — an execution environment that survives between sessions rather than a sandbox that resets. BoxHaven's angle is exactly that: persistent, owned cloud VMs for agents like Claude Code and Codex, so a long-lived agent process has a stable machine it can keep working on. For a team building agent-driven internal tooling, owning the execution environment matters. The load-bearing caveat is the license: AGPL-3.0 is strong/network copyleft, so if you modify BoxHaven and expose it over a network you are obligated to share your modified source — a real constraint if you plan to wrap it into a hosted product. Combined with its nascency (6 stars), the honest read is: promising as self-hosted owned infrastructure, but read the AGPL terms before you build a service on it.