shanselman/sandbox-mcp
Fresh, throwaway Windows machines for testing your apps: an MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox
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Not your desktop. Not a container pretending to be Windows. A real, disposable Windows 11 machine: boot it, deploy your app, drive the controls, catch the crash, keep the evidence, delete the PC. Run it directly with sbx; the optional MCP adapter exposes discoverable tools and inline images for clients that want them. Both interfaces use the same engine. The measured GUI samples take roughly 40-50 seconds end to end. See the website. Real app, real guest: Haptics Everywhere's self-contained WPF/WinForms desktop app in a fresh, network-off Sandbox. UIA selects the Inspector, the guest switches light to dark, the app relaunches and exits, then the guest is destroyed. 10-second, 183 KB edited footage: light Inspector slowed for readability, repeated dark frames trimmed. Boot/teardown title cards summarize actual logs, not filmed boot/shutdown. No guest runtime installation or haptic-hardware claim. Fresh dark lab screenshot · Earlier light-theme inspector. Give this to your…
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Inside the original README — Document outline
- sandbox-mcp
- Give your AI agent a brand-new Windows PC. Then throw it away.
- 🤖 Let your agent set it up
- “Works on my machine.” Caught in 30 seconds.
- What your agent gets
- Why
- What you can do
- Download and try it (no Node.js install)
- Turn on Windows Sandbox
- Install from source
- Use it from an agent (optional MCP)
- Install the agent plugin
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What this repository does
Fresh, throwaway Windows machines for testing your apps: an MCP server and CLI that automate Windows Sandbox
Repository facts
- Owner
- shanselman
- Primary language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 305
- Forks
- 15
- Open issues + pull requests
- 0
- License
- MIT
- Archived
- No
- Default branch
- main
- Created
- 2026-11-06T19:02:14.000Z
- Last push
- 2026-11-07T09:47:07.000Z
Topics and intended use
Owner-supplied topics: ai-agents, mcp, mcp-server, testing, ui-automation, windows, windows-sandbox
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