Comment by baconner
12 hours ago
FWIW I think many of us would actually very much love to have an official (or semi official) Claude sandboxing container image base / vm base. I wonder if you all have considered making something like the cowork vm available for that?
There is this:
https://code.claude.com/docs/en/devcontainer
It does work but I found pretty quickly that I wanted to base my robot sandbox on an image tailored for the project and not the other way around.
Ok I'd seen some sample sandbox scripts for this from anthropic before but not a full reference container. nice, thank you for sharing.
Perhaps useful, I discovered: https://github.com/agent-infra/sandbox
> All-in-One Sandbox for AI Agents that combines Browser, Shell, File, MCP and VSCode Server in a single Docker container.
This? https://code.claude.com/docs/en/devcontainer
what would you use it for?
Not OP, but having the exact VM spec your agent runs on is useful for testing. I want to make sure my code works perfectly on any ephemeral environments an agent uses for tasks, because otherwise the agent might invent some sort of degenerate build and then review against that. Seen it happen many times on Codex web.
What the other poster here said for testing against a reference, but also as an easier to get started with base for my own coding sandbox with coding agents. Took me quite a while to build one on my own that I was semi-happy with but I'd imagine one solid enough to run cowork on safely might have some deeper thinking and review behind it.