Yolobox
Shares rank 12 of 17 agent sandboxes by recommenders
A free sandbox that lets AI coding agents run with sudo and install tools without touching your home directory, built on the Docker-style container approach. Critics say the security model is unclear and the current directory is mounted read-write.
A free sandbox that lets AI coding agents run with sudo and install tools without touching your home directory, built on the Docker-style container approach. Critics say the security model is unclear and the current directory is mounted read-write.
9 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 78%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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Other agent sandboxes people recommend
The four most recommended other agent sandboxes, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docker Sandboxes | 50 | 39 | 56% | 9 | — | — |
| NVIDIA OpenShell | 36 | 8 | 82% | 9 | — | Approved |
| Claude Code sandbox | 16 | 18 | 47% | 6 | — | — |
| MXC (Microsoft Execution Containers) | 15 | 17 | 47% | 1 | — | — |
| YoloboxThis page | 7 | 2 | 78% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 14 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Another one that handles this gracefully is Yolobox, which uses rootless Podman.”
“Being able to tell the agent it has sudo and can install and do whatever it needs to accomplish any task is handy.”
“a sandbox for running AI coding agents without them being able to nuke your home directory”
“takes the docker approach (nearly 400 github stars already and quite a few improvements shipped in the last week)”
“Basically a batteries included image with a bit of sugar.”
“can the yolo modes be disabled? I want only the isolation”
“just in framing it as a security feature.”
“Nice. I've gone down the same path”
“The security model relies on the container boundary, but it implicitly trusts local configuration files.”
“Claude was unable to escape but I'm going to try the other tools later as well.”
“Yolobox mounts the current directory in read-write, the default user has sudo, and there's full network access by default.”
“It would be helpful if the README explained how this works”
“Comes preinstalled with leading coding agent CLIs.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.