I built SideKernel: a usable AI agent sandbox for macOS

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⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/minoansecurity/sidekernel 📝 arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2610.02456 🌐 Website: https://sidekernel.com Hi everyone! As part of my MS in Cybersecurity capstone at Georgia Tech, I built SideKernel: a usable sandbox for AI agents on macOS. The closest comparable solution is Docker Sandboxes, which is not open source. The key idea is usability. SideKernel is designed to reduce friction and stay as close as possible to the native developer experience, while isolating the agent inside a microVM sandbox. For example, you run sclaude or scodex instead of claude or codex and get a very similar workflow, but with isolation. Ports get auto exposed in the host, its very easy to drop files into the sandbox, and more... This is still a research prototype, so some rough edges are expected. But if this sounds interesting, I'd love for you to try it out and share feedback   submitted by   /u/dimiprasakis [link]   [comments]