A shell is not a workspace computer.
If your agents should never open a browser, stay on devcontainers. If they must log into GitHub or staging, the isolation story changes.
Devcontainers and Docker Compose are how many teams ship a reproducible shell. They are not a durable workspace computer with a GUI/browser contract.
Where they win. People whose agents should stay in a terminal on a repo, with no browser login to staging.
The difference. 1AgentBox is a sealed Linux workspace with an OS-owned browser, snapshots, and a roster of agents. Devcontainers are a development environment, not that machine.
| 1AgentBox | Docker / devcontainers | |
|---|---|---|
| Reproducible shell | Guest shell | Yes |
| Sealed workspace computer | Yes | No |
| OS-owned browser | Yes | No |
| Snapshot disk + profiles | Yes | No |
| Agents inherit host secrets | No | Usually |
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Can I still use Docker inside the workspace?
Extra tools come as a curated pack or containers in the guest. Agents cannot apt-install onto /usr.
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