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title: "Recipes"
description: "The ten things people do with Vakna, each a block you can paste and the receipt it prints."
verified:
  cli: "0.0.0-mock"
  date: "2026-10-20"
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The ten things people do with Vakna, each a block you can paste and the receipt it prints.

- [Run your tests in a box](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/run-tests): Run a project's test suite in an isolated box and read the receipt it prints.
- [Fork a box for a test matrix](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/fork-a-matrix): Fork one box fifty times from a snapshot and run the same command in each, with one receipt for the lot.
- [Resume yesterday's box](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/resume-a-box): Resume a suspended box where it stopped, with its processes, memory and ports as they were.
- [Allow a box to reach a host](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/allow-egress): Let a box in lockdown reach one host, such as a package registry, through Vakna's proxy.
- [Post a receipt to a pull request](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/receipt-to-pr): Put a task's receipt in a pull request comment, so reviewers see what ran and what it cost.
- [Run Claude Code inside a box](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/claude-code): Run a coding agent in a throwaway box, so the code it writes and runs never touches your machine.
- [Budget a task before you scale it](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/budget-a-task): Run a task small, read its cost on the receipt, then decide how many boxes to fork.
- [Try a public repo without an account](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/try-a-repo): Run a public repository's tests in a trial box that lives for an hour, with no account.
- [Copy a project into a box](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/copy-a-project): Send your working directory into a box with tar over vakna shell, with no upload step.
- [Find the boxes that need you](https://vakna.com/docs/recipes/boxes-that-need-you): See which boxes in a large task are stuck or waiting on an answer, and attach to one.