Sprites

A sprite is a persistent, hardware-isolated Linux environment. It keeps its filesystem between sessions, gets a public hostname, runs services that survive disconnects, and can be snapshotted and restored in seconds.

Before anything else, work out where you are running. Every operation has two forms, and picking the wrong one wastes a turn.

Step 1: detect the context

test -S /.sprite/api.sock && echo inside || echo outside