A developer wants each LLM agent in its own minimal Alpine container

Low-Sandwich1194 · reddit · 2026-07-21

Isolating LLM agents with disposable containers

The poster describes a recurring failure mode: one agent installs software that breaks another agent, and the host machine fills up with tools that were never requested.

Their proposed fix is to run each conversation inside a minimal Alpine container, give the agent its tools there, mount one shared directory for files, and destroy the container afterward. They ask whether an existing system already handles this well.

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