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Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?

11 pointsby rjzzleeptoday at 1:40 PM8 commentsview on HN

I believe someone recently posted sort of a secure harness/wrapper for running coding agents in a secure sandbox. I can't find the project.

Of course I can make my own wrapper with systemd-nspawn, kata or bspawn, but I believe I saw a decently well-maintained project just a while back. Does anyone have a suggestion or link? It's become extremely hard to find things on GitHub with all the generated projects.


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pixdamixtoday at 7:41 PM

If you're on a mac, lookup https://bromure.io/en/agentic-coding

(Lookup the browser too: https://bromure.io/en/secure-web)

Everything you see is made by Claude (and Renaud Deraison :-)) and working quite well jugding from the demos)

See here for more details (in french but English subs available (and more)): https://www.sstic.org/2026/presentation/cloture_2026/

ca_techtoday at 6:53 PM

If you are running MacOS, I would recommend Agent Safehouse. Well maintained and is built on existing sandbox-exec so you are not locked in and can always build your own rules independent of the CLI tool.

https://github.com/eugene1g/agent-safehouse/ https://agent-safehouse.dev/

Originally posted on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47301085

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sanju3026today at 2:38 PM

I believe you're looking for Era. It uses libkrun for local microVM isolation and was built specifically to solve the "LLM hallucinated a destructive bash command" problem without the overhead of a massive VM.

Another one that handles this gracefully is Yolobox, which uses rootless Podman. Both are actively maintained and cut through the noise of the thousands of generic wrapper repos out there right now.

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aborsytoday at 6:40 PM

Docker has introduced sandboxes for this purpose.

rohityintoday at 3:42 PM

Have you thought About docker?