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  **Boxy** — in this material — is Notion's internal project of **pre-built
  virtual machines** for on-demand remote computing in the cloud, which Notion
  AI connects to (instead of a plain, limited sandbox) so a coding agent can run
  commands and explore the actual codebase.
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# \*\*Boxy\*\*

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## Definition

**Boxy** — in this material — is Notion's internal project of **pre-built virtual machines** for on-demand remote computing in the cloud, which Notion AI connects to (instead of a plain, limited sandbox) so a coding agent can run commands and explore the actual codebase.

**Boxy** comes up when Ryan Nystrom, a software engineer on Notion AI, explains how his agent gets a real computer to work on. Out of the box, Notion AI uses **Vercel sandboxes** — useful, but limited and starting from scratch every time. Notion instead built **Boxy**: an internal project of *pre-built virtual machines* for on-demand remote computing in the cloud. When Notion AI connects to a **Boxy machine**, the agent can run commands and explore the actual codebase — for example, figuring out how the new model selector works [^7d2a9b32-b281-5828-9eb1-bf812129ae58@0].Boxy is one of the pieces that lets Ryan hand off work fully and walk away: everything runs **in the cloud**, so he sends the message, closes the tab, and goes to a meeting. Before, he used Cursor connected to the repository via Boxy or locally — now the agent works against a cloud-connected environment natively, with Notion as the source of truth for all context.- **Boxy** is Notion's internal project of pre-built cloud VMs for on-demand remote computing. - It replaces limited, from-scratch sandboxes as the machine the coding agent connects to. - With a Boxy machine, the agent can run commands and explore the real codebase while the human is away.