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OS-level sandboxing for pi with interactive permission prompts

8 mentions on Hacker News by 4 people: 0 stories, 8 comments · first 2026-02-25 · latest 2026-08-05

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  1. …is missing. I write more about this and about (hacky, but productive enough) workaround here: https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox/issues/50
    comment by newtwilly · 2026-08-05 · in Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
  2. …compare that. I describe the issue and a (slightly hacky, but productive enough) workaround here: https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox/issues/50 Obviously the fact that I can fork a plugin for pi and customize it as needed is quite a…
    comment by newtwilly · 2026-08-05 · in Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
  3. …pi sandbox extension doesn't support it. Pi should really build permissions into the agent leve. https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox
    comment by Onavo · 2026-07-05 · in Better Models: Worse Tools
  4. …experience where a sandbox is used, but you can fall back to unsandboxed with approval required. https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox/issues/50
  5. You can add that via an extension: https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox The price of flexibility is, pi is not opinionated about adding sandboxing out-of-the-box, it gives you options on how you want to do it. You either do it with linux…
    comment by reegnz · 2026-04-08 · in I've sold out
  6. …show up more or less verbatim on Claude’s docs. [1] My config is here, may be useful to someone: https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox/blob/main/sandbox.jso...
    comment by carderne · 2026-03-28 · in Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem
  7. …Only benefit over OP is that there's some UX for temporarilily/permanently bypassing blocks. [1] https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox
  8. …read/write/edit/bash, some prompts to temp/perm override. Have a look, copy-paste what you like. https://github.com/carderne/pi-sandbox
    comment by carderne · 2026-02-25 · in Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness