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I would expect to be able to give someone access to my computer let them do random things without them having access to things that are passworded within the computer.

Being able to sliently make my password manager insecure is a big issue. It should be right up there with the LastPass hacks.

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This 'someone' could also, on most computers, install a keylogger to get your master password, or passwords that aren't registered in a password manager. Would you consider this a vulnerability coming from the password manager?

In most cases they wouldn't be able to do that. Because there are security measures to prevent that.

What security measures do you think would protect against someone installing a keylogger or extracting saved passwords from your browser data files if you let them use your computer?

Also, are you envisioning setting up a new, non-administrative user account for that person, or just logging on using your own account and then handing over the keyboard and mouse like most people would do?

Anti-virus systems...

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