TakoVM
open-source sandboxing for your agent's code
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HN · launched Jun 30, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: ai agent execution sandboxes · 137 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -25% · Explore this niche →
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- Dev tools
- Developer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Building a secure, low-overhead sandbox runtime for untrusted AI agent execution requires deep systems programming involving kernel namespaces, seccomp filters, cgroups, or custom microVMs (like Firecracker).
What it would actually take: The system requires a Rust or Go daemon managing lightweight microVMs (KVM/Firecracker) or Linux container isolation primitives (user namespaces, cgroups v2, seccomp BPF filters, landlock). The difficult aspects are preventing container breakouts, enforcing deterministic memory/CPU/network throttles, and ensuring sub-second startup times for agent subprocesses without granting host privileges. This requires low-level Linux systems programming and virtualization security expertise.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 4466 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3045 of 4467 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 244 days after the earliest competitor.
- Plimsoll, a self-hosted sandbox for code your AI agent writes · hn · 2026-10-11 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.76
- Agent-run · hn · 2026-07-12 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.73
- Halv · hn · 2026-10-22 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.72
- Lula · hn · 2026-03-23 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Multi-agent coding assistant with a sandboxed Rust execution engine · hn · 2026-04-06 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.71
- Silos, An open source (MIT) CLI sandbox orchestrator for local agents · hn · 2026-11-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- Agent37: The cheapest AI sandbox · yc · 2026-11-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.69
- agent-scaffold · github · 2026-10-20 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.68
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