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Clawk: give coding agents a disposable Linux VM github.com

On your own machine an agent leaves two bad options: approve every command and babysit the prompt, or --dangerously-skip-permissions and hope nothing is one rm -rf from disaster. Clawk is the third option: cd into a repo, type clawk, and Claude Code (or Codex, or a shell) works inside a disposable Linux VM with your code mounted. The agent gets full autonomy inside walls, instead of limited autonomy on your laptop.

The HN discussion asks the obvious question (why not just Docker: answer, kernel isolation), jokes about agents escaping container jail, and reveals a crowded field: Fly Sprites, virtdev, take-ai-control. Agent sandboxing is having a moment.

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