Manage Runloop devbox lifecycle: suspend, resume, and billing states

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Documented steps

  1. A devbox moves through states: provisioning -> initializing -> running -> (suspending -> suspended -> resuming -> running) or -> shutdown, with a possible failure state.
  2. Compute is billed only while in states [initializing, running, suspending, resuming]; suspended devboxes stop compute billing but continue to accrue storage costs.
  3. Suspend: Python `devbox = runloop.devbox.from_id(devbox_id); await devbox.suspend(); await devbox.await_suspended()`. TypeScript: `devbox.fromId(devboxId); await devbox.suspend(); await devbox.awaitSuspended();`
  4. Resume: Python `await devbox.resume(); await devbox.await_running()`. TypeScript: `await devbox.resume(); await devbox.awaitRunning();`
  5. Only disk state is preserved across suspend/resume — in-memory state is lost, and any daemons/background processes must be manually restarted after resume.
  6. The original devbox ID and its SSH keys persist across suspend/resume cycles.
  7. Docs: https://docs.runloop.ai/docs/devboxes/lifecycle

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