Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir

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██╗ ██╗ ██████╗ ██╗ ██████╗ ██████╗ ██████╗ ██╗ ██╗ ╚██╗ ██╔╝██╔═══██╗██║ ██╔═══██╗██╔══██╗██╔═══██╗╚██╗██╔╝ ╚████╔╝ ██║ ██║██║ ██║ ██║██████╔╝██║ ██║ ╚███╔╝ ╚██╔╝ ██║ ██║██║ ██║ ██║██╔══██╗██║ ██║ ██╔██╗ ██║ ╚██████╔╝███████╗╚██████╔╝██████╔╝╚██████╔╝██╔╝ ██╗ ╚═╝ ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═════╝ ╚═╝ ╚═╝ Let your AI go full send. Your home directory stays home. Run Claude Code, Codex, or any AI coding agent in "yolo mode" without nuking your home directory. The Problem AI coding agents are incredibly powerful when you let them run commands without asking permission. But one misinterpreted prompt and rm -rf ~ later, you're restoring from backup (yea right, as if you have backups lol). The Solution yolobox runs your AI agent inside a container where: ✅ Your project directory is mounted at /workspace is mounted at ✅ The agent has full permissions and sudo inside the container and inside the container ✅ Your home directory is NOT mounted (unless you explicitly opt in) (unless you explicitly opt in) ✅ Persistent volumes keep tools and configs across sessions The AI can go absolutely wild inside the sandbox. Your actual home directory? Untouchable. Quick Start # Install (requires Go) curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/finbarr/yolobox/master/install.sh | bash # Or clone and build git clone https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox.git cd yolobox make install Then from any project: cd /path/to/your/project yolobox You're now in a sandboxed shell. Run claude and let it rip. What's in the Box? The base image comes batteries-included: AI CLIs : Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex (all aliased to run in full-auto mode!) : Claude Code, Gemini CLI, OpenAI Codex (all aliased to run in full-auto mode!) Node.js 22 + npm/yarn/pnpm + npm/yarn/pnpm Python 3 + pip + venv + pip + venv Build tools : make, cmake, gcc : make, cmake, gcc Git + GitHub CLI + Common utilities: ripgrep, fd, fzf, jq, vim Need something else? You have sudo. AI CLIs Run in YOLO Mode Inside yolobox, the...