At the moment, docker/sandbox-templates:shell is 1.33GB and the recommended base template is inexplicably docker/sandbox-templates:claude-code which is 1.56GB. This is wildly different to the usual docker base image scenario of alpine (8.44MB) or debian:stable-slim (78.6MB).
While I can appreciate that the template images may need to have something more than just sh on them, it seems quite unreasonable for the minimum necessary tooling for things to work to be 1.33GB.