"* Full computer access: It's not sandboxed in a browser. Meka operates with OS-level controls, allowing it to handle system dialogues, file uploads, and other interactions that browser-only automation tools can't."

This seems pretty scary. Just recently an AI wiped a company database: https://fortune.com/2025/07/23/ai-coding-tool-replit-wiped-d...

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tcwd 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Hi there, I'm Edward, one of the co-founders. The OS that the agent operates in is a fresh confined environment, and not a company or personal computer.

	▲	dotancohen 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		So how can it do anything useful without access to actual data? Can it be installed on a conventional (personal or work) desktop?

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xnx 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Power and risk go hand in hand. Best approach is probably to run in a VM.

	▲	ElasticBottle 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yeap, that's exactly where the agents run in

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wsycharles0o 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I would assume this capability is meant to be used in a docker?

	▲	tcwd 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		We explored using a containerized VM that exposed agentic controls in the open source version, but generally found that the cloud-based solutions were much faster to get started and easier to work with. Our repo contains adapters that work with several of the most popular cloud-hosted VM-as-a-service infra providers. Definitely would be happy to be wrong and missed something here!