Agents often handle complex work that continues across runs. As that work evolves, they may need a new environment with different tools, runtimes, or compute. They should be able to continue working with the same files when they change environments.

We built Vercel Drives to keep an agent’s files independent of its execution environment. It is now generally available for Vercel Sandbox . Agents can mount the same drive in a new environment configured for the next task and continue where they left off.

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Create a drive once, then mount it when you create a sandbox. From the CLI:

sandbox drives get-or-create agent-workspace

sandbox create --mount agent-workspace:/workspace

Or from the Sandbox SDK:

import { Sandbox , Drive } from '@vercel/sandbox' ;

const drive = await Drive . getOrCreate ( { name : 'agent-workspace' } ) ;

const sandbox = await Sandbox . create ( {

mounts : { '/workspace' : drive } ,

} ) ;

await sandbox .…