Comment by kstenerud

Not famous last words ;-)

I've already shipped this and use it myself every day. I'm the author of yoloAI (https://github.com/kstenerud/yoloai), which is built around exactly this model.

The agent runs inside a Docker container or containerd vm (or seatbelt container or Tart vm on mac), against a full copy of your project directory. When it's done, `yoloai diff` gives you a unified diff of everything it changed. `yoloai apply` lands it. `yoloai reset` throws it away so you can make the agent try again. The copy lives in the sandbox, so your working tree is untouched until you explicitly say so.

The merge step turned out to be straightforward: just use git under the hood. The harder parts were: (a) making it fast enough that the copy doesn't add annoying startup overhead, (b) handling the .pyc/.venv/.git/hooks concern you raised (they're excluded from the diff surface by default), and (c) credential injection so the agent can actually reach its API without you mounting your whole home dir.

Leveraging existing tech is where it's at. Each does one thing and does it well. Network isolation is done via iptables in Docker, for example.

Still early/beta but it's working. Happy to compare notes if you're building something similar.