| ▲ | Ask HN: What are agent sandboxes missing? | |||||||
| 5 points by oryx1729 7 hours ago | 3 comments | ||||||||
I'm building an agent sandbox platform with opinionated customizable templates for general purpose agents using the OpenCode SDK. The idea is to provide a great CLI experience so it's easy to use an AI client like Claude Code or Codex to launch sandboxes, fetch/retrieve data and prompts, review generated outputs, and manage queues for ask-user questions. I also plan to add an AI gateway layer, similar to Tailscale Aperture(not affiliated but one of their engineers gave a great talk at AI Engineer it's on YT) for monitoring network access, distributing secrets, and controlling what services/systems a sandbox has access to. For people building agent workflows, I'd love to hear feedback if you've tried other sandbox solutions. What was missing and what was the hard part? | ||||||||
| ▲ | zloy88 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||
What I disliked about the Claude sandbox is that their IPs are blocked by many platforms, which makes webfetch etc. nearly impossible. I had to write a skill to avoid that. Best example is reddit that blocks all access for LLMs. I mean, it's surely understandable why those paltforms do it. But for your own purpose like research and can be a bit annoying. | ||||||||
| ▲ | aborsy 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||
Docker sandboxes do that. They take quite bit of resources though, almost same as a standard VM. I need to mount directories or remove after creation easily, like I do with containers. Gateway would be good too. Firewall needs more functionality. | ||||||||
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