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Re: Show HN: peerd – AI agent harness that runs entirely in your browser

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Congratz on your project. Yet I feel that the browser extension part is doing damage to its discoverability hence democratization. You might be interested in this browser-based agentic solution I'm currently building in the open: https://github.com/codename-co/devs

Hey, cool project. Lots of simpler inspirations obviously. Ultimately an extension is more friction than a web page, but it comes with much wider capabilities when you're not locked to a single tab. So it's the right choice for peerd in particular, but the web page approach for a low friction demo is a good idea. I have two small ones on peerd.ai (the real linux terminal, and the p2p connections) but can probably flesh that out more in a compelling way.

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That's cool. Sounds very impressive. What's the point of all this security though? You don't want it to access your files, just give it its own Linux user. You don't even need a container. Better yet, you can give it root on a $3 VPS (or $30 Thinkpad) and get a sysadmin for free :) Although, Cheerpx... that seems to imply your agent can play Java and Flash games. Alright, you might be on to something!

> just give it its own Linux user it's never "just" ... (for example: how do you manage this across multiple isolated sessions?) opening a browser is much easier ... and the entry barrier for non-linux people at your company is much much lower ... and the compliance barrier for companies is much much lower (how do you ensure that everyone creates the users correctly?)

>how do you manage this across multiple isolated sessions

I actually ran into this today. Needed a fresh environment to replicate a bug.

    sudo adduser agent2

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

> just give it its own Linux user it's never "just" ... (for example: how do you manage this across multiple isolated sessions?) opening a browser is much easier ... and the entry barrier for non-linux people at your company is much much lower ... and the compliance barrier for companies is much much lower (how do you ensure that everyone creates the users correctly?)

>how do you manage this across multiple isolated sessions I actually ran into this today. Needed a fresh environment to replicate a bug. sudo adduser agent2

and your orchestrating agent has permissions to add users?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

>how do you manage this across multiple isolated sessions I actually ran into this today. Needed a fresh environment to replicate a bug. sudo adduser agent2

and your orchestrating agent has permissions to add users?

What's that?
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