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LayerFS by Ephemeral AI Lab

Open-source workspace layer for AI agents: each agent mounts a writable workspace over shared committed history, commits its changes and goes away.

Agent tooling for cost, context and memory New · Added to AgentGid on Oct 27, 2026Open source · MITFree to start
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Price
Free (OSS)
free and open source
Popularity
#54 in Agent tooling
Gid Score 27 / 100 · #54 of 73 ranked agent tools
Trend
Gaining stars fast
about +58 GitHub stars a day
Development
Actively updated
latest 1.1.0, 10d ago
Community
2,649 GitHub stars
public signals

Usage data: latest readings Nov 2 to Nov 3, 2026, last checked Nov 3, 06:35 UTC. Date of each number

What LayerFS does

It is free and open source (MIT); you pay only for the models it calls.

Key facts

MakerEphemeral AI Lab
First releasedAugust 2026
LicenseMIT
Main languageRust
Open issues and PRs64

Pricing

Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.

Checked Oct 27, 2026. Prices change often; confirm before you buy.

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Quick answers

What's new in LayerFS: October 2026

Full monthly summary

October saw LayerFS reach version 1.0.0 with major performance improvements and API maturation, followed by 1.1.0 adding cross-platform support and restructured packages. The month brought faster reads, better merging, and a complete command-line interface.

Action needed: @layerfs/sdk package renamed to @layerfs/agent
  • Reached 1.0.0 milestone with significant performance gains in reads and commits.
  • Added cross-platform support for macOS and Windows alongside Linux.
  • Introduced the layerfs command for per-call JSON output.
  • Removed the 1 MiB exec output cap; large command output now handled properly.

3 releases this month · summarised from the official release notes · all months

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3
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LayerFS news

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  1. New on AgentGid AgentGid

    8 agents added to AgentGid

    LayerFS, ThinkRail, Loki Mode, Switch, Omnara, Andee, OpenFilm, SPACE (Perplexity)

    LayerFSThinkRailLoki ModeSwitch
  2. Release GitHub Releases

    LayerFS 1.1.0 released

    Three packages. @layerfs/sdk is now @layerfs/agent (Projects,; The layerfs command. One @layerfs/agent call per command, with JSON; Explicit Sandboxes. sandbox.create() starts a Sandbox and

    LayerFS
  3. Release GitHub Releases

    LayerFS 1.0.0 released

    Store calls run in your process. fs, branch and project calls open; Workspace API with numbered Sandboxes. workspace.mount(branch) places the; Better merges. Entries merge by identity, branch.merge merges by unit,

    LayerFS

What changed: recent LayerFS releases

10 stable releases in the last 90 days · Monthly summary · Full changelog

1.1.0
  • Three packages. @layerfs/sdk is now @layerfs/agent (Projects,
  • The layerfs command. One @layerfs/agent call per command, with JSON
  • Explicit Sandboxes. sandbox.create() starts a Sandbox and
  • Factories. await LayerFS.open(name) and await LayerFS.init(name,
  • macOS and Windows. Store calls go to the LayerFS home's worker: a Linux
  • Init. An optional time limit, 300 s by default, instead of a fixed 60 s;
1.0.0
  • Store calls run in your process. fs, branch and project calls open
  • Workspace API with numbered Sandboxes. workspace.mount(branch) places the
  • Better merges. Entries merge by identity, branch.merge merges by unit,
  • Faster reads and Commits. File reads share caches and scan each file once,
  • Smaller Stores. A file saved by rename-over, such as Git's index, is stored
  • Large command output. The 1 MiB exec output cap is gone; large output is
Earlier releases
0.1.7
  • every Sandbox daemon opens one shared Store directly;
  • each mounted Workspace has its own overlay;
  • Commit merges with a Branch head that has moved since the mount, and on
  • optional commit messages;
  • pageSize/pagePos paging;
  • line-range reads and blame;
0.1.6
  • the sandbox owner keeps live mutable state and a private snapshot backing
  • the daemon's mount request carries that backing root, so a v0.1.6 sandbox owner
  • the public CLI is unchanged (layerfs --version prints layerfs 0.1.6), and
  • One construction worker, so construction-heavy work is slower: six
  • A bounded sandbox spool replaces page-cache residency. The sandbox's own
  • Kernel-dirty shared mmap is still not captured by a Commit — the
0.1.5
  • Pending-edit capacity (#116): an equal-length overwrite of committed
  • Distributed SDK-edit workloads: workspace-distributed-sdk-edit-500
  • Packed metadata (#107): pack rows 3,457 → 1,058, pack overflow slack
  • Stable wins: payload-create-* 0.79–1.02× and dedup-workspace
  • One registered Tier-1 gate fails: dedup-history-unrelated-500-mixed-v2
  • 125 WARN cells; worst ratios dedup-cdc-scattered-100 3.45×,
0.1.4
  • v0.1.4 adds packed SQLite storage, native FULL/PREFIX representations, bounded shared Init/Commit publication, and reuse of authenticated Init comparison bytes.
  • The accepted full157 observation uses 184,582,144 allocated bytes, 15.374% less than its 218,116,096-byte supplemental control. Adjacent duplicate-heavy Init observations improve by 80–82% against…
  • Validation covers 198 performance cases, 226 routine proofs, supplemental small-file/SDK/FUSE workloads, 157 performance states and 157 retained-history proofs. The optional 600-second endurance…
  • Known tradeoffs: substantial regressions versus v0.1.3 remain. Three absolute latency targets miss; the four historical Git comparisons are INELIGIBLE and the current overall report remains…
  • Upgrade boundary: create a new schema-7 Store. Supported development schema-6 Stores retain the legacy format. Released v0.1.3/schema-5 Stores are not migrated or opened; preserve them with their…
  • This is a source-only Developer Preview, not production storage. Crash and power-loss durability are not promised. The source assets and checksums are attached to the GitHub release.

LayerFS popularity and usage data

The GitHub repository has 2,649 stars, 2,321 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.1.0, published Oct 24, 2026; there were 3 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 1 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.

GitHub starsrunning total 2,649
Hacker News mentionsposts and comments, rolling 7-day total 0 this week

Download the raw daily series: layerfs.csv

Gid Score breakdown

Adoption—
Community18
Attention0
Momentum100

Each component is scored 0 to 100 from public signals; a dash means no data for it. Methodology.

How fresh these numbers are

NumberLatest readingLast checked
GitHub starsNov 3, 2026Nov 3, 06:34 UTC
Hacker News mentionsNov 2, 2026Nov 3, 06:35 UTC

We fetch every source once a day. Registries publish downloads and page views a day or two late, so their latest reading trails the check. A reading more than 4 days old is marked out of date; the Gid Score still uses it until a newer one arrives.

LayerFS FAQ

How much does LayerFS cost?

Open source under the MIT licence; check the website for any paid hosted plans.

Is LayerFS open source?

Yes. LayerFS is open source, released under the MIT license.

How popular is LayerFS?

The GitHub repository has 2,649 stars, 2,321 of them added in the last 30 days. The latest stable release is 1.1.0, published Oct 24, 2026; there were 3 stable releases in the past 30 days. It was mentioned in 1 Hacker News posts and comments over the last 30 days.

What is the latest version of LayerFS?

The latest stable release we track is 1.1.0, published on Oct 24, 2026.

What are the alternatives to LayerFS?

The closest alternatives in the same category by Gid Score are LiteLLM, Langfuse, Firecrawl, E2B.

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Where these numbers come from

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Product facts and pricing were checked against: layerfs.ai, github.com.