alt Hacker NewsyoloAI does something similar:
- Sandbox on Linux using Docker, Podman, containerd, gVisor, Kata, Firecracker
- Sandbox on Mac using Docker (Docker Desktop or Orbstack), Podman, Apple containers, Seatbelt, Tart (Tart lets you run simulators).
- Network restriction
- Secrets control (file mounts or credentials broker)
- NO ambient data (ENV is replaced with a minimal and local-to-sandbox one, no host-side filesystem access beyond what you explicitly allow)
- Workdir protection: Your work dir is never modified until you apply the changes, either standalone or as a git commit. You can also diff before applying. Git runs SANDBOX side in case the repo has filters.
- Uses copy-on-write if your filesystem supports it (most modern ones do)
- Has built-in support for claude, codex, gemini, aider, and opencode, but you can also launch it in "shell" mode and run whatever you want.
- Supports VS code tunnels, so you can remotely access in VS code if you don't want to use the terminal.
- Full lifecycle support: Launch, attach, stop, restart, wait, one-shot, clone, destroy
- MCP passthrough
- Layered API (golang) if you want to sandbox other things
- Self-contained binary. No external requirements other than the backends you want to use. Defaults to a ~/.yoloai dir for config/data, but you can point it anywhere.
- FOSS
Hadn't seen yoloai before. I really like new/diff/apply/destroy workflow, that's interesting. For my own needs the two things I was after were multi-repo worktrees (one sandbox spanning several repos, each on with its own worktree) and a single network restricted VM path I fully control, rather than many backends (I started with many backends at first but it was awkward to add network filtering to them). Lots of overlap though, nice work, and I'll be reading through yours.