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FLAR is a Fast Light Agent Restrictor

7 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2026-07-03 · latest 2026-08-17

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  1. …I think it understates the problem. I did a task I've done with a bunch of small models lately ( https://github.com/swelljoe/flar/pull/17 ), and it did an excellent job, the best of any self-hostable model. But, it took eleven (11!) hours…
  2. …But, this is how I did it, and you're likely to run into all the same little quirks I ran into: https://github.com/swelljoe/flar
  3. …by flatpak and several other large projects, so I trust it quite a bit (more than I trust Docker). https://github.com/swelljoe/flar
  4. …supply chain attacks, it can't and doesn't try to protect the project being worked on from either). https://github.com/swelljoe/flar
  5. …of the agent or model) as well as any supply chain exploits the agent might accidentally introduce. https://github.com/swelljoe/flar It starts instantly, as it's a namespace, rather than a full VM or container that has to be…
  6. …problem (at least on Linux, though I believe there's a way to achieve something similar on MacOS): https://github.com/swelljoe/flar It uses bubblewrap to instantly construct a container around just the agent config, auth and history and…
  7. …giving the agent tools and project structure data to lift detection and reduce false positives. https://github.com/swelljoe/flar - FLAR is the Fast Light Agent Restrictor. It bubblewraps an agent so it is quite safe to use agents on your…