Control E2B sandbox lifetime: set and extend timeouts, kill sandboxes

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Documented steps

  1. Set the lifetime at creation: JS `Sandbox.create({ timeoutMs: 60_000 })` (milliseconds), Python `Sandbox.create(timeout=60)` (seconds) (https://e2b.dev/docs/sandbox)
  2. Extend or shorten a running sandbox: JS `await sandbox.setTimeout(30_000)`, Python `sandbox.set_timeout(30)` — the new value replaces the remaining time, counted from now
  3. Inspect a sandbox with `getInfo()` / `get_info()` for its ID, template and timestamps
  4. Terminate immediately with `sandbox.kill()`, or by ID via `Sandbox.kill(sandboxId)`
  5. For workloads longer than the plan's continuous-runtime cap, pause/resume instead of one long session

Known gotchas

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