quicksand-cua 0.4.0a1

Overlay image package for quicksand

Quicksand CUA Sandbox

An overlay image package for quicksand that adds browser automation via Playwright and Chromium with a VNC-accessible virtual display. Built on top of quicksand-agent.

Installation

quicksand install quicksand-cua

Usage

Simple (recommended)

import asyncio
from quicksand_cua import CuaSandbox

async def main():
    async with CuaSandbox() as sb:
        # Xvfb, x11vnc, and Chromium start automatically via systemd
        result = await sb.execute("python3 -c 'from playwright.sync_api import sync_playwright; print(\"OK\")'")
        print(result.stdout)

asyncio.run(main())

With custom config

from quicksand_core import Sandbox

async with Sandbox(image="quicksand-cua", memory="4G", cpus=4) as sb:
    result = await sb.execute("chromium --version")

What's Included

Everything from quicksand-agent (Python 3.12, uv, requests, pyyaml, ddgs, markitdown), plus:

• Xvfb virtual framebuffer (display :0, 1280x1024x24)
• x11vnc VNC server on port 5901
• Playwright browser automation library
• Chromium browser (installed via Playwright)
• noVNC web client on port 6080
• Fonts (Liberation, Noto Color Emoji)

All services (Xvfb, x11vnc, Chromium, noVNC) are enabled as systemd units and start automatically on boot.

License

MIT