What is pause and resume?
Answer in brief
Suspending a sandbox so it stops consuming compute, then restoring it later with its state intact.
Pause and resume in agent sandboxes
Pause/resume lets an agent keep a long-lived workspace — for example across a multi-day coding task or a chat that the user returns to — without paying for idle CPU. Implementations differ: some persist only the filesystem, others also persist memory and processes.
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Agent Sandboxes. (2026). What is pause and resume?. agentsandboxes.org. Last reviewed November 8, 2026. https://agentsandboxes.org/glossary/pause-resume/
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