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alentredtoday at 6:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

I am not sure I understand, how is this different from a devcontainer or other similar techniques?

On another topic, can't help but notice that "leading coding agents" somehow does not include Pi.


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alexfortintoday at 8:49 AM

About the missing native support for Pi, I opened this issue long ago in case you want to add some pressure: https://github.com/docker/sbx-releases/issues/34

To work around that limitation I came up with this https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi

So essentially you can get latest Pi/Node pulling from that image:

`sbx run -t ghcr.io/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi:latest shell`

Like others here I'm also saddened by the login requirement but at the moment this is the best UX I could find for running sandboxed agents, the "kit/mixin" concepts are neat and I make use of them too: https://github.com/shaftoe/sbx-template-pi#stacking-the-extr...

zmmmmmtoday at 6:47 AM

it's running a full VM so the agent can eg: run docker commands safely etc