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Crabbox
Crabbox: warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.
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Crabbox: warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.
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🦀 📦 Crabbox
CI ↗ Release verification ↗ Latest release ↗
Warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.
Crabbox is a generic remote software testing and execution control plane. It is for maintainers, contributors, and automation that need to run repository commands somewhere other than the laptop in front of them: on managed cloud capacity, an existing SSH host, or a delegated sandbox provider. Crabbox keeps the local edit-save-run workflow, but moves the expensive or evidence-producing work onto a remote runner.
crabbox run -- pnpm test
Behind that one command, Crabbox leases or selects a runner, syncs the current working tree, runs the command remotely, streams output back, records evidence, and releases or unclaims the target. The system is a Go CLI on your machine, an optional coordinator that owns provider credentials and lease state, and a managed or delegated runner. Run the coordinator on Cloudflare Workers with a Durable Object, or as a Node.js service backed by PostgreSQL.
Who Crabbox is for
Crabbox fits teams and tools that need repeatable remote execution without turning every test run into a bespoke CI job:
- maintainers who need faster or larger machines for test suites, builds, browser checks, or platform-specific validation;
- contributors who want a disposable environment that matches a repository's setup scripts and can be released when the run finishes;
- AI agents and other automation that need command output, logs, artifacts, and run history from an
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# 🦀 📦 Crabbox  [](https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/actions/workflows/ci.yml) [](https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/actions/workflows/release-assets.yml) [](https://github.com/openclaw/crabbox/releases/latest) **Warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.** Crabbox is a generic remote software testing and execution control plane. It is for maintainers, contributors, and automation that need to run repository commands somewhere other than the laptop in front of them: on managed cloud capacity, an existing SSH host, or a delegated sandbox provider. Crabbox keeps the local edit-save-run workflow, but moves the expensive or evidence-producing work onto a remote runner. ```sh crabbox run -- pnpm test ``` Behind that one command, Crabbox leases or selects a runner, syncs the current working tree, runs the command remotely, streams output back, records evidence, and releases or unclaims the target. The system is a Go CLI on your machine, an optional coordinator that owns provider credentials and lease state, and a managed or delegated runner. Run the coordinator on Cloudflare Workers with a Durable Object, or as a Node.js service backed by PostgreSQL. ## Who Crabbox is for Crabbox fits teams and tools that need repeatable remote execution without turning every test run into a bespoke CI job: - maintainers who need faster or larger machines for test suites, builds, browser checks, or platform-specific validation; - contributors who want a disposable environment that matches a repository's setup scripts and can be released when the run finishes; - AI agents and other automation that need command output, logs, artifacts, and run history from an
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- License
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- Version
- 1.0.0
- Last GitHub push
- Aug 18, 2026
- Registry updated
- Sep 1, 2026
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