OpenHands CEO: 4 Ways to Sandbox Your Coding Agents, From Docker to Kubernetes

AI Engineer · youtube · 2026-10-12

OpenHands co-founder and CEO Robert Brennan argues that running coding agents with skipped permissions locally exposes every file, secret and prod credential on your machine. He lays out a least-privilege approach and compares four real sandbox setups: local Docker containers, Claude Code in GitHub Actions, dedicated VMs or Mac Minis, and per-session Kubernetes pods — scored on locality, scale, isolation, persistence and triggers. He also covers the limits of sandboxing (including container escapes) and demos OpenHands Agent Canvas.

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