simonw/denobox
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Run JavaScript code and WASM in a Deno sandbox
6 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 6 comments · first 2026-01-10 · latest 2026-01-30
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This project looks very cool - I've been trying to build something similar in a few different ways ( https://github.com/simonw/denobox is my most recent attempt) but this is way ahead of where I've got, especially given its support for…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-30 · in Show HN: Amla Sandbox – WASM bash shell sandbox for AI agents -
…a pretty fun novel piece of software, see https://github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts Denobox https://github.com/simonw/denobox is another recent agent project which I consider novel: https://orphanhost.github.io/?simonw/denobox/trans…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-28 · in Show HN: One Human + One Agent = One Browser From Scratch in 20K LOC -
…but with JavaScript rather than Python as the unsafe language, again via Deno in a subprocess: https://github.com/simonw/denobox I've also experimented with using wasmtime instead of Deno: https://til.simonwillison.net/webassembly/python-in…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-26 · in The browser is the sandbox -
…to learn how to do what I can do. Here are the transcripts for me Denobox project, for example: https://github.com/simonw/denobox/tree/transcripts - you can view those with my new https://orphanhost.github.io/ tool like this:…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-12 · in Don't fall into the anti-AI hype -
I wouldn't call these flawless but here you go: - https://github.com/simonw/denobox is a new Python library that gives you the ability to run arbitrary JavaScript and WASM in a sandbox provided by Deno, because it turns out a Python…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-12 · in Don't fall into the anti-AI hype -
…you have to chmod +x it - including in GitHub Actions workflows. I had to workaround it like this: https://github.com/simonw/denobox/blob/8076ddfd78ee8faa6f1cd... - name: Run tests run: | chmod +x $(python -c "import deno;…
comment by simonw · 2026-01-10 · in Deno has made its PyPI distribution official