Pause & resume

Idle pause

After about 15 minutes without activity, your sandbox pauses automatically to save cost (E2B lifecycle: onTimeout: pause, autoResume: true).

• It is not deleted.
• It still appears on your dashboard.
• Files, config, and memory snapshot are kept.

How to resume

Dashboard

1. Open Dashboard.
2. Find the instance (status paused).
3. Click Wake / resume.
4. Wait a few seconds, then use Telegram / Discord / Slack as usual.

Telegram (auto-resume)

When the sandbox is paused, Vectra arms a host wake webhook. The next DM:

1. Resumes the sandbox via the E2B SDK (Sandbox.connect / auto-resume).
2. Restarts the coding daemon (long-poll freezes across pause).
3. Replies asking you to send the message again (Telegram delivered the first update to the wake webhook, not the bot).

While the sandbox is running, the host webhook is cleared so the bot’s normal long-poll works.

Discord / Slack do not use a host wake webhook — use Wake / resume on the dashboard after idle pause.

Commands & config

Any dashboard shell command or config save also resumes a paused sandbox (gateway ensures the sandbox is running before work).

If payment has expired, renew first, then resume.

Tips

• Resume is free while your current paid period is active.
• Destroy is permanent; pause is not.
• Set PUBLIC_BASE_URL to your public HTTPS app URL so Telegram can reach the wake webhook.