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A usable macOS sandbox for Claude Code

Why run claude when you can run it sandboxed with sclaude?

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SideKernel runs coding agents like Claude Code and Codex inside a lightweight VM on your Mac, with a real virtualization boundary between the agent and your machine. Just run "sclaude" instead of "claude". Open source under Apache 2.0.

PH · launched Sep 30, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: ai agent execution sandboxes · 137 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • AI feature
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Developer Tools
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Security

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Could you build this?

No Creating a seamless macOS CLI virtualization sandbox requires deep low-level macOS system programming with Apple's Hypervisor.framework and Virtualization.framework.

What it would actually take: Requires Swift/Objective-C/Rust systems development using Apple's `Virtualization.framework` to spin up lightweight Linux or Darwin guest VMs on Apple Silicon. The hard engineering problems involve bidirectional filesystem sharing (VirtioFS), dynamic port forwarding, TTY/PTY terminal emulation pass-through, and credential mounting so coding CLI agents run transparently without breakout vulnerabilities.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 968 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #773 of 969 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 328 days after the earliest competitor.

  • fleet · github · 2026-09-30 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • AgentBox · hn · 2026-04-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • Epho · ph · 2026-08-21 · 156 upvotes · similarity 0.61
  • NekoTrail · ph · 2026-11-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.60
  • Replicas · ph · 2026-06-03 · 241 upvotes · similarity 0.59
  • Lima-devbox · hn · 2026-01-22 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Bx · hn · 2026-04-07 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.57
  • Mudroom · ph · 2026-10-28 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.55

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