
smolvm
by smol-machines (organization)
An embeddable, portable, branchable virtual machine to safely run Agents locally. (description from the project’s GitHub page)
Repository facts
- Stars
- 6,760
- Forks
- 333
- Open issues and pull requests
- 84
- Primary language
- Rust
- License
- Apache License 2.0 (Apache-2.0)
- Owner
- smol-machines · Organization
- Created
- Dec 18, 2025
- Last push
- Oct 18, 2026
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