Hoplite Launches Cloud Coding Agents Priced by Sandbox Capacity

Hoplite launched out of YC’s S26 batch with a service that takes a software task from request to reviewed code, working in isolated environments to read repositories, run tests and open pull requests. The interesting decision is the meter: capacity is sold as sandbox throughput rather than per-seat, which is the right shape if agent volume grows while engineering headcount does not. The difficulty is visible on the same day’s trending list, where an open-source terminal coding agent gained 883 stars. Any moat here sits in sandbox orchestration, review quality and enterprise repository permissioning, not in the agent.