Available Tools

Every sand VM is provisioned from the same base image, so a freshly cloned VM comes with the tools you normally use.

Container & local dev

• Docker CE (with Buildx and Compose)
• ddev
• The Drupal.org CLI (drupalorg)
• cloudflared
• mkcert

Running a web server with these? Web Servers and Ports covers how to reach it from your browser — locally and on a remote profile.

Language runtimes

• Node.js
• Go
• Python 3 (with uv)
• A headless JDK

Claude Code & git

• The Claude Code CLI
• The GitHub CLI (gh), configured as the git credential helper for HTTPS authentication
• The GitLab CLI (glab)
• The OpenAI Codex CLI — opt-in: pass --with-codex to sand create (or enable the toggle in the TUI create form). Codex is not provisioned by default; only include it if you want to use it alongside Claude Code.

Shell & utilities

• tmux, direnv, jq, htop, and other common CLI tools
• Per-user tmux, git, and bashrc configuration, deployed automatically

Sessions survive disconnecting

systemd linger is enabled for the VM's user, so a detached tmux session — and anything running inside it, including a Claude Code session — keeps running after you disconnect.