Ignoring the confidentiality arguments posed here, I can’t help to think about snapshotting filesystems in this context. Wouldn’t something like ZFS be an obvious solution to an agent deleting or wildly changing files? That wouldn’t protect against all issue the authors are trying to address, but it seems like an easy safeguard against some of the problems people face with agents.
Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
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Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#22Should be named Jia More seriously, I'm not a heavy agent user, but I just create a user account for the agent with none of my own files or ssh keys or anything like that. Hopefully that's safe enough? I guess the risk is that it figures out a local privilege escalation exploit...
P.S. Everything old is new again <3
Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#23I've been using claude code daily for months and the worst thing that happened wasnt a wipe(yet). It needed to save an svg file so it created a /public/blog/ folder. Which meant Apache started serving that real directory instead of routing /blog. My blog just 404'd and I spent like an hour debugging before I figured it out. Nothing got deleted and it's not a permission problem, the agent just put a file in a place that made sense to it.
jai would help with the rm -rf cases for sure but this kind of thing is harder to catch because its not a permissions problem, the agent just doesn't know what a web server is.
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#24Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#25Add this to .claude/settings.json: { "sandbox": { "enabled": true, "filesystem": { "allowRead": ["."], "denyRead": ["~/"], "allowWrite": ["."], "denyWrite": ["/"] } } } You can change the read part if you're ok with it reading outside. This feature was only added 10 days ago fwiw but it's great and pretty much this.
Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#26Add this to .claude/settings.json: { "sandbox": { "enabled": true, "filesystem": { "allowRead": ["."], "denyRead": ["~/"], "allowWrite": ["."], "denyWrite": ["/"] } } } You can change the read part if you're ok with it reading outside. This feature was only added 10 days ago fwiw but it's great and pretty much this.
People might genuinely want some other software to do the sandboxing. Something other than the fox.
Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#27Should be named Jia More seriously, I'm not a heavy agent user, but I just create a user account for the agent with none of my own files or ssh keys or anything like that. Hopefully that's safe enough? I guess the risk is that it figures out a local privilege escalation exploit...
Dunno... with this setup it seems certain that the agent will discover a zero-day to escalate privilges and send your SSH keys to its handlers in N. Korea. P.S. Everything old is new again <3
Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#28Add this to .claude/settings.json: { "sandbox": { "enabled": true, "filesystem": { "allowRead": ["."], "denyRead": ["~/"], "allowWrite": ["."], "denyWrite": ["/"] } } } You can change the read part if you're ok with it reading outside. This feature was only added 10 days ago fwiw but it's great and pretty much this.
Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#29Add this to .claude/settings.json: { "sandbox": { "enabled": true, "filesystem": { "allowRead": ["."], "denyRead": ["~/"], "allowWrite": ["."], "denyWrite": ["/"] } } } You can change the read part if you're ok with it reading outside. This feature was only added 10 days ago fwiw but it's great and pretty much this.
Is this a real sandbox or just a pretty please?
Re: Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
#30Add this to .claude/settings.json: { "sandbox": { "enabled": true, "filesystem": { "allowRead": ["."], "denyRead": ["~/"], "allowWrite": ["."], "denyWrite": ["/"] } } } You can change the read part if you're ok with it reading outside. This feature was only added 10 days ago fwiw but it's great and pretty much this.