Run AI coding agents in real, local sandboxes, not Git worktrees
Details
- External ID
- 47741064
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Run AI coding agents in real, local sandboxes, not Git worktrees
- Website domain
- superhq.ai
- Launched
- April 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.2808483290488432
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Hey HN, I built SuperHQ, an app that lets you run coding agents in local sandboxes (powered by Shuru).No custom UI wrapping the agents, they run as CLI/TUI like they were designed to. It just provides you the tools most of us (okay, maybe just me?) needed for running multiple coding agents in parallel without worrying about breaking your system or work environment.Each agent runs in its own microVM. You mount your projects in, writes go to a tmpfs overlay so your host is never touched, and you get a unified diff view to accept or discard changes. API keys never enter the sandbox, they are swapped in on the wire by a local proxy. You can also use your ChatGPT subscription directly instead of API keys through a local auth gateway.Supports Pi, Codex and Claude Code.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools for AI agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- sandbox execution for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Running coding agents in fast, isolated local microVMs on macOS requires low-level hypervisor virtualization (Apple's Hypervisor.framework or Virtualization.framework), complex overlay tmpfs filesystems, and custom networking sandboxes.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires Swift/Rust interfacing directly with Apple's `Virtualization.framework` to spin up lightweight Linux guest microVMs, manage virtiofs/tmpfs COW file sharing with the host, and handle guest-host IPC. The hard parts are seamless file-system synchronization without destroying git tracking, network egress sandboxing, and sub-second VM boot times. This requires deep systems-level OS and hypervisor engineering expertise.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Launched 159 days after the earliest competitor.
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