Fetching from the wire…
Infra2026-07-29 · source-backed
Vercel shipped it July 28: a fork starts from the source sandbox's current snapshot, inherits config and env vars, and supports per-field overrides. Forking takes about the same time as creating a sandbox with equivalent limits and falls back to fresh creation when no snapshot exists. The gotcha in the docs: it copies the latest saved state, not live in-memory state of a running sandbox. Named use cases are branching agents off shared setup, per-tenant template copies, and simultaneous setup variations.
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Vercel released Vercel Sandbox / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
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Vercel released Vercel Sandbox / Shared entities / Earlier coverage
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Vercel released Vercel Sandbox / Shared entity: Vercel / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
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