Isolate multiple AI agents in a single Vercel Sandbox by giving each its own Linux user and sharing files through a group directory.
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Documented steps
Create a sandbox as usual: `const sandbox = await Sandbox.create()`. Docs: https://vercel.com/docs/sandbox/multi-agent
Create a Linux user per agent: `const alice = await sandbox.createUser('alice')`. Username must match `/^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$/` and be at most 32 characters; the user gets `/bin/bash` and a private home directory at `/home/alice`.
Run commands or file operations scoped to that user via the returned `SandboxUser` handle (methods mirror the sandbox's own `runCommand`/file APIs but execute as that Linux user).
To reference a user that already exists (e.g. restored from a snapshot, or `root`) without creating it, use `sandbox.asUser('bob')`.
For shared workspace between agents, create a group: `const devs = await sandbox.createGroup('devs')` (shared directory at `/shared/devs`, setgid so files inherit the group). Add members with `await sandbox.addUserToGroup('alice', 'devs')`; revoke with `sandbox.removeUserFromGroup('alice', 'devs')`.
Group revocation applies immediately to new commands, but processes already running as that user retain group access until they exit.
Known gotchas
`createUser`/`createGroup` names must match `/^[a-z_][a-z0-9_-]*$/` and be <= 32 characters — invalid names fail synchronously.
A user's home directory is private to other regular users but is still readable by the SDK/control plane.
This multi-user isolation happens inside a single microVM/kernel — it is Linux user/permission isolation, not the stronger microVM-level isolation you get between separate sandboxes; don't rely on it to contain fully untrusted, mutually adversarial code the way separate sandboxes would.
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