--- title: Containers Don't Make Your AI Agent Safe | daily.dev description: Running AI coding agents without permission checks is risky, but constant permission prompts kill productivity. Docker Sandboxes (a free tool) solve this by... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/containers-don-t-make-your-ai-agent-safe-nugahiyvz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Containers Don't Make Your AI Agent Safe | daily.dev og:description: Running AI coding agents without permission checks is risky, but constant permission prompts kill productivity. Docker Sandboxes (a free tool) solve this by... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/containers-don-t-make-your-ai-agent-safe-nugahiyvz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/nugahIYvz.png og:image:alt: Containers Don't Make Your AI Agent Safe og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Containers Don't Make Your AI Agent Safe **[Web Dev Simplified](https://daily.dev/sources/wds)** · 36 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Running AI coding agents without permission checks is risky, but constant permission prompts kill productivity. Docker Sandboxes (a free tool) solve this by running AI agents inside microVMs that isolate them from your host system. The tutorial covers setting up Docker Sandboxes, configuring network policies (open/balanced/lockdown), securely injecting credentials so the sandbox never sees actual tokens, using clone mode with git worktrees for extra file-system isolation, and creating custom sandbox kits via spec.yaml files. It also demonstrates setting up a Piper (Pi) agent with a local LLM via LM Studio, and composing reusable mixin kits (e.g., shared skills) that can be stored on GitHub and applied across multiple agent environments. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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