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Depot

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Depot turns its build-acceleration compute into a metered backend for AI agents.

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◆Current state
Depot is shipping fast across two fronts: hardening its CI platform and opening its compute to AI workloads. Recent CI work includes native step retries, durable cache disks, and a generally available API and CLI with full dashboard parity. On the AI front it added SOCI v2 to cut startup time for large CUDA and PyTorch images and launched a Sandbox SDK to run untrusted or agent-generated code in ephemeral, billed sandboxes.
◆Where it's heading
Depot is extending from build and CI acceleration toward being a general compute backend for agents. The Sandbox SDK, the agent-friendly GA API, and ML-image startup optimizations point the same way: sell fast, isolated, metered compute that AI tools and pipelines can drive programmatically. The CI improvements keep the core product sticky while the platform broadens.
◆Prediction
Expect the Sandbox SDK to move toward general availability with more language and filesystem surface, and continued convergence of CI and sandbox compute under one metered, API-first platform.

◆Recent moves

  1. 8d ago

    SOCI v2 support for Depot container builds

    Container builds now support SOCI (Seekable OCI) v2, so compatible runtimes start after downloading only the files they need instead of pulling the whole image, cutting startup for large CUDA or PyTorch images. The index is generated at build time, with no post-push pipeline. Squarely aligned with serving ML and AI workloads.

  2. 9d ago

    Sandbox SDK is now available in private beta

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    Depot opens a new product surface with a Sandbox SDK to run untrusted or agent-generated code in isolated, ephemeral sandboxes, billed per vCPU-second. This is the clearest signal of Depot positioning its compute as a backend for AI agents, not just builds.

  3. 15d ago

    Native step retries in Depot CI

    Depot CI adds a native retry: key on run steps with configurable attempts and backoff, replacing the need to vendor a marketplace retry action. A practical reliability win for flaky commands that keeps users inside the platform.

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  4. 17d ago

    Durable cache disks for Depot CI jobs are now available in beta

    Durable, multi-write cache disks (beta) persist content between CI runs in a POSIX filesystem, enabling artifact reuse and fan-out read/write patterns across runners. Strengthens the CI platform's performance story.

  5. 23d ago

    Depot CI API and CLI are now generally available

    The Depot CI API and CLI reach general availability with full dashboard parity, an OpenAPI v3 spec, and AI run summaries, so scripts and agents can trigger, inspect, and manage runs from one contract. Key to the API-first, agent-drivable direction.

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  6. 24d ago

    SSH into Depot CI sandboxes now uses exec.depot.dev

    SSH access to CI sandboxes moves to a dedicated host, exec.depot.dev, behind a dedicated proxy. Mostly transparent once the CLI is updated; only raw ssh users targeting api.depot.dev need to change anything.