Run AI Coding Agents Safely with Docker Sandboxes
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Docker sandboxing for AI coding agents, extremely actionable and directly in reader's wheelhouse.
Summary
Docker Sandboxes provide microVM environments for AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, isolating them from the host system to prevent arbitrary command execution and untrusted file modifications. The sandboxes offer network policy controls (Open, Balanced, Locked Down) via the `sbx` CLI, with Balanced allowing predefined domains such as AI provider APIs and package managers. Credentials are stored on the host with sandboxes seeing only sentinel values, and secrets can be set globally or per project.