Have you seen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892015 and yoloai? https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai Seems like both projects are following very similar approaches.
Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
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#22Re: Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
#23I still don't understand the point of all these VMs and containers for agents. Just create a separate user on your machine without sudo privileges, switch to it in your terminal and run all the agents you want without it being able to reach your files. What am I missing?
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#24why not just a docker container
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#25You might prefer byre's simplicity, transparency, and ease of reasoning about: one local container, explicit access grants, readable generated Docker, and a workflow that stays close to normal development rather than introducing a larger sandbox platform. It's also very very easy to eject from if you want to stop using it.
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#26Re: Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop
#27I still don't understand the point of all these VMs and containers for agents. Just create a separate user on your machine without sudo privileges, switch to it in your terminal and run all the agents you want without it being able to reach your files. What am I missing?
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#28I still don't understand the point of all these VMs and containers for agents. Just create a separate user on your machine without sudo privileges, switch to it in your terminal and run all the agents you want without it being able to reach your files. What am I missing?
Security is riddled by traps. If you can afford best possible level of isolation, why not do it?
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#29I still don't understand the point of all these VMs and containers for agents. Just create a separate user on your machine without sudo privileges, switch to it in your terminal and run all the agents you want without it being able to reach your files. What am I missing?
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#30I’m quite happy with exe.dev for this. My laptop is asleep upstairs but I have an agent coding away in a browser tab on the tablet I’m using. I could also check on it from my phone.
But it might also be nice if a setup similar to exe.dev were available for self-hosting. I have a Mac Mini that I don’t really use much.