Run a long-running or background process in an E2B sandbox and manage it

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Documented steps

  1. Create a sandbox: 'from e2b import Sandbox; with Sandbox.create() as s: ...'.
  2. Start a background job: 'handle = s.commands.run("python train.py", background=True)' — returns a CommandHandle instead of blocking.
  3. Poll/interact via handle methods (e.g. handle.wait()) or later reconnect with 's.commands.connect(pid)'.
  4. Enumerate running jobs: 'procs = s.commands.list()'.
  5. Stop one: 's.commands.kill(pid)' (sends SIGKILL).

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