Code Container: Isolating AI Coding Harnesses Without Losing Your Mind

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

This post was written with AI assistance (Claude) for structure and formatting. The ideas, paranoia, and late-night container debugging are my own.

Let me start with a confession:

I’ve been running AI coding agents with full, unrestricted access to my host machine.

Claude Code in YOLO mode. OpenCode. Codex. All of them, just loose on my filesystem with --dangerously-skip-permissions because — let’s be honest — the permission prompts break flow. You’re in the zone, the agent is cranking through a refactor, and then it stops to ask “can I read this file?” for the fifteenth time.

Claude-Code on Mike's Shiny Objects

Code Container: Isolating AI Coding Harnesses Without Losing Your Mind