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Comment by AlexCoventry | Hacker News Reader

Run coding agents in a docker container with limited permissions. FWIW, I run it with

  --cap-drop=ALL
  --pids-limit=4096
  --runtime=runsc

If you're on Linux, you can also easily run it in bwrap to properly sandbox without running a full container

Or put it in a microvm using eg smolmachines.

I've never used smolmachines but I'm curious; why this over a container?

Containers are not security boundaries. Vulnerabilities in containers are much more common than in VMs.

Kernel-level isolation is a significant security differentiator, for starters.

shows a good comparison table.

Using runsc instead of runsc means that there's a hypervisor layer (gvisor, probably) in-between the kernel and the container userland

I run mine on their own machine, without root access.

Currently a Raspberry Pi 5

I am very pleased with it.

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