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crabbox-quickstart
First contact with Crabbox: run your repository's tests inside a disposable Docker or Podman container on your own machine, no account and no cloud spend, then stop the box. Use when someone asks what Crabbox is or how to try it, wants a throwaway sandbox for a repo with no crabbox.yaml yet, or is about to run crabbox init here; hand off to the crabbox skill for config that already exists, leased remote machines, jobs, secrets, or artifacts.
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# Crabbox Quickstart
Crabbox runs your repository's commands on a disposable box — a container on
your own machine, or a remote machine you lease. It syncs your working tree,
runs one command, streams the output back, and exits with that command's code.
## The loop
```text
lease -> sync -> run -> read output -> stop
```
- **Lease** a box from a provider. `--provider local-container` uses Docker or
Podman on your own machine: no account, no login, no spend.