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Fixes ENG-3925


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Adds cross-references to a blog post about storage options across multiple documentation pages (Agent Drive, Sandboxes, Volumes, troubleshooting). Also adds a note clarifying current storage limitations and updates the comparison table to reflect that the S3 interface is "coming soon" rather than available.

Written by Mendral for commit 5e5044b.

Signed-off-by: Vikram Vaswani <vvaswani@blaxel.ai>
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🔍 PR Interaction Analysis

This is a docs-only PR — no service code, APIs, or runtime components are modified. The changes add cross-references (blog post links) and clarifying notes to existing storage documentation pages.

Since there are no code-level component interactions to diagram, here's a visual map of how the documentation pages are connected by this PR:

sequenceDiagram
    participant User as Reader
    participant BP as best-practices.mdx
    participant SO as Sandboxes/Overview.mdx
    participant SF as Sandboxes/Filesystem.mdx
    participant VO as Volumes/Overview.mdx
    participant AD as Agent-drive/Overview.mdx
    participant TS as troubleshooting.mdx
    participant Blog as Blog Post (external)

    User->>BP: Reads storage comparison table
    BP-->>Blog: New link → "choosing the right storage"
    User->>SO: Reads root storage / volumes section
    SO-->>Blog: New link → "choosing the right storage"
    User->>SF: Reads filesystem operations intro
    SF-->>Blog: New link → "choosing the right storage"
    User->>VO: Reads volumes overview
    VO-->>Blog: New link → "choosing the right storage"
    User->>AD: Reads agent drive overview
    AD-->>Blog: New link → "choosing the right storage"
    User->>TS: Hits ENOSPC error
    TS-->>Blog: New link → benchmarks
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All 6 changed files now funnel readers toward the same external blog post for storage guidance. Additionally, best-practices.mdx adds a <Note> clarifying that no external storage mounting (e.g., s3fs) is currently supported, and corrects the Agent Drive interface description (S3 interface marked as "coming soon" rather than available).

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Needs attention — 1 issue in 1 file

Typo "informaton" (missing 'i') is repeated in 4 of 6 files. Otherwise the changes are straightforward doc additions with no correctness or security concerns.

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Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them.

<assessment>
Typo "informaton" (missing 'i') is repeated in 4 of 6 files. Otherwise the changes are straightforward doc additions with no correctness or security concerns.
</assessment>

<file name="Agent-drive/Overview.mdx">
<issue location="Agent-drive/Overview.mdx:22">
Typo: "informaton" should be "information". This same typo is repeated in `Sandboxes/Filesystem.mdx:12`, `Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx:44`, and `Volumes/Overview.mdx:16`.
</issue>
</file>

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Comment thread Agent-drive/Overview.mdx
- Drives scale automatically with no fixed capacity limits. Pre-provisioning or run-time resizing is not required.

<Tip>
Refer to our [blog post on choosing the right storage for your Blaxel agents](https://blaxel.ai/blog/choose-the-right-storage-for-your-blaxel-agents) for more informaton.

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maintainability (P3): Typo: "informaton" should be "information". This same typo is repeated in Sandboxes/Filesystem.mdx:12, Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx:44, and Volumes/Overview.mdx:16.

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Refer to our [blog post on choosing the right storage for your Blaxel agents](https://blaxel.ai/blog/choose-the-right-storage-for-your-blaxel-agents) for more informaton.
Refer to our [blog post on choosing the right storage for your Blaxel agents](https://blaxel.ai/blog/choose-the-right-storage-for-your-blaxel-agents) for more information.
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Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At Agent-drive/Overview.mdx, line 22:

<issue>
Typo: "informaton" should be "information". This same typo is repeated in `Sandboxes/Filesystem.mdx:12`, `Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx:44`, and `Volumes/Overview.mdx:16`.
</issue>

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What this PR addresses

This PR improves the discoverability of storage options in the Blaxel docs by adding links to a blog post ("Choose the right storage for your Blaxel agents") across multiple storage-related pages. It also makes two small content corrections:

  1. Updates the Agent Drive interface description from "POSIX + S3" to "POSIX (S3 interface coming soon)"
  2. Adds a note clarifying that no storage option currently supports mounting external storage (e.g., S3 via s3fs) or bulk-syncing files

Steps to verify

  1. Check all blog post links render correctly. The same blog link is added to 6 pages — verify each renders as a clickable link pointing to https://blaxel.ai/blog/choose-the-right-storage-for-your-blaxel-agents:

    • Agent-drive/Overview.mdx (Tip callout)
    • Sandboxes/Filesystem.mdx (Tip callout)
    • Sandboxes/Overview.mdx (inline in the Storage section)
    • Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx (inline + new Note callout)
    • Volumes/Overview.mdx (Tip callout)
    • troubleshooting.mdx (inline in Note callout)
  2. Verify the comparison table update in Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx: the "Interface" row for Agent Drive should now read "POSIX (S3 interface coming soon)" instead of "POSIX + S3".

  3. Verify the new <Note> block in Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx renders properly and explains the limitations around external storage mounting and bulk file sync.

  4. Check for typo: The word "informaton" (missing an 'i') appears in the Tip blocks on Agent-drive/Overview.mdx, Sandboxes/Filesystem.mdx, Sandboxes/best-practices.mdx, and Volumes/Overview.mdx. Consider whether this should be corrected to "information".

What to verify (expected behavior)

  • All added links are valid and navigate to the correct blog post.
  • <Tip> and <Note> MDX components render without errors.
  • The storage comparison table still displays correctly with the updated cell content.
  • No existing content is broken or displaced by the additions.
  • The blog post URL (/blog/choose-the-right-storage-for-your-blaxel-agents) resolves (returns 200) on the live site.

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📋 Created Linear issue ENG-3925 — status: In Progress

  • Assignee: Unassigned (GitHub user vikram-blaxel could not be matched to a Linear account)
  • Labels: Doc
  • Estimate: S (21 additions, 3 deletions across 6 files)
  • PR linked: ✅ Issue will auto-close when this PR merges

Auto-created because no Linear reference was found in the PR title, description, or branch name. Note: branch prefix pm- does not correspond to an existing Linear team — issue created in ENG (the only available team).

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