Sandboxes Aren't Optional: 4 Ways to Isolate Coding Agents — Robert Brennan, OpenHands
Robert Brennan, co-founder and CEO of OpenHands, traces AI coding from ChatGPT snippets to local agents and now cloud agents, and argues that sandboxes should follow the principle of least privilege.
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Key points
- Running your coding agent with --dangerously-skip-permissions on your laptop puts every file, secret and prod credential you have in reach.
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- • Least privilege for coding agents
- • Trade-offs of Docker, GitHub Actions, VMs and Kubernetes
Sources (1)
- [1]Sandboxes Aren't Optional: 4 Ways to Isolate Coding Agents — Robert Brennan, OpenHandsAI Engineer (YouTube) · Oct 12, 05:10 AM
Robert Brennan, co-founder and CEO of OpenHands, traces AI coding from ChatGPT snippets to local agents and now cloud agents, and argues that sandboxes should follow the principle of least privilege.
Running your coding agent with --dangerously-skip-permissions on your laptop puts every file, secret and prod credential you have in reach.
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