openclaw/crabbox

Warm a box, sync the diff, run the suite.

Crabbox is a generic remote software testing and execution control plane. It is for maintainers, contributors, and automation that need to run repository commands somewhere other than the laptop in front of them: on managed cloud capacity, an existing SSH host, or a delegated sandbox provider. Crabbox keeps the local edit-save-run workflow, but moves the expensive or evidence-producing work onto a remote runner.

Behind that one command, Crabbox leases or selects a runner, syncs the current working tree, runs the command remotely, streams output back, records evidence, and releases or unclaims the target. The system is a Go CLI on your machine, an optional coordinator that owns provider credentials and lease state, and a managed or delegated runner. Run the coordinator on Cloudflare Workers with a Durable Object, or as a Node.js service backed by PostgreSQL.

Crabbox fits teams and tools that need repeatable remote execution without turning every test run into a bespoke CI job:

Use Crabbox when local compute is too slow, the target platform is somewhere else, a workflow needs a clean disposable runner, or a reviewer needs streamed evidence from the exact command that ran. Do not use it as a replacement for CI, a hostile multi-tenant sandbox, a secrets scrubber, or an isolation boundary between mutually untrusted users.