Ask HN: Secure wrapper for coding agents?
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.
Discussion Highlights (8 comments)
sanju3026
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.
rohityin
Have you thought About docker?
aborsy
Docker has introduced sandboxes for this purpose.
ca_tech
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
pixdamix
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/
sakuraiben
Take a look at https://github.com/Tako-Research/TakoVM !
Jeremy1026
agent-pd was posted as a Show HN fairly recently, might be what you are remembering? https://github.com/varmabudharaju/agent-pd/
felixlu2026
for coding agents, i care less about sandbox branding and more about boring audit logs. what did it read, what did it write, and what was blocked?