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Includes a comparison table highlighting how templates provide reproducible, deterministic environments while snapshots capture runtime state for checkpointing, rollback, and forking workflows.
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Co-authored-by: Vasek Mlejnsky <vasek@e2b.dev>
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Add a new "Snapshots vs. Templates" section to the snapshots documentation page.
The section includes a comparison table highlighting key differences: templates provide reproducible, deterministic environments via declarative code, while snapshots capture runtime state for checkpointing, rollback, and forking workflows.
Also added a "Use cases" section listing five concrete scenarios: checkpointing agent work, rollback points, forking workflows, warm starts, and sharing state.
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Low Risk
Low risk documentation-only change that adds guidance text and a comparison table; no runtime or API behavior is modified.
Overview
Adds a new “Snapshots vs. Templates” section to
docs/sandbox/snapshots.mdx, including a comparison table clarifying when to use deterministic templates vs runtime-captured snapshots.Also adds a Use cases section with concrete scenarios for snapshots (checkpointing, rollback, workflow forking, cached/warm starts, and sharing state).
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