Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents

Re:Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents by pash on Sunday March 08, 2026 @06:25PM (#47302271)

Sandvault [0] (whose author is around here somewhere), is another approach that combines sandbox-exe with the grand daddy of system sandboxes, the Unix user system.

Basically, give an agent its own unprivileged user account (interacting with it via sudo, SSH, and shared directories), then add sandbox-exe on top for finer-grained control of access to system resources.

0. https://github.com/webcoyote/sandvault

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Re:Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents by mikemcquaid on Monday March 09, 2026 @03:34AM (#47305879)

Yeh I came here to post this. I preferred this approach as user permissions are a bit easier to consistently verify as a second layer of defence.

I also found the author to be helpful and responsive and the tool to be nicely minimalistic rather than the usual vibe coded ever expanding mess.

‘brew install sandvault’ and running ‘sv’ should get you going.

(full disclosure: I created the Homebrew formula and submitted a few PRs to the project)

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Re:Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents by TheTaytay on Monday March 09, 2026 @09:56AM (#47309121)

Means a lot coming from you - thanks for taking the time to post, and for taking the time to make the Homebrew formula. (I am also a fan of the author's (webcoyote's) other work.)

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