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The Stack · Roundup

The best agent runtimes for AI agents

Sandboxes and execution environments for running agent code/tools. Ranked by community traction, with live GitHub stars and what each is best at.

1. Temporal

★ 21k · Go

Durable execution platform — write long-running, failure-resilient agent workflows as ordinary code. Best for durable agent workflows.

2. E2B

★ 13k · TypeScript

Secure cloud sandboxes for running AI-generated code — the runtime layer for code-executing agents. Best for code execution.

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