Modal Sandboxes Knowledge

Use this skill for Modal Sandbox design, security, and operations. For ordinary functions, GPU jobs, or deployment topics, use modal-compute:modal-compute-knowledge.

Essential security checklist

1. Treat all submitted code and files as untrusted.
2. Use explicit timeout, CPU, memory, and disk constraints.
3. Prefer deny-by-default network egress; allow only required destinations.
4. Clean up every sandbox with terminate() or a scoped lifecycle.
5. Avoid passing long-lived credentials into sandbox environments unless strictly required.
6. Capture stdout/stderr and return codes separately for auditing and debugging.

Common patterns

• One-shot execution: create a sandbox, run a command, collect output, terminate.
• Named sandbox: reuse a per-session sandbox for interactive workflows.
• PTY session: support shell-like interaction while preserving resource limits.
• Snapshot workflow: prebuild filesystem state, then launch from a known baseline.