add ai-sandbox: rootless podman sandbox for agentic development

A single bash script that runs a coding harness (pi by default) inside a
rootless Ubuntu 24.04 container with only the current directory mounted at
/project, an explicit egress allowlist and an explicit environment: nothing
is passed in that was not named on the command line or in a config file.

Network enforcement here is empirical rather than assumed
(tests/spike_network.sh, docs/networking.md). The original design -- a sidecar
proxy on an internal network -- does not work rootless on this host, so allow
mode runs pasta with --map-host-loopback, installs an inet aisb ruleset inside
the container that drops every egress path except the gate's, and relays
through a squid gate bound to the host's loopback that resolves names itself
and refuses anything unlisted. The entrypoint checks that the default-drop rule
really exists before setpriv drops to uid 1000 with an empty capability set,
and exits 77/78 rather than run unenforced.

The Containerfile, the entrypoint, the squid config generator and the ruleset
renderer all live in bin/ai-sandbox, and the image is tagged by content hash,
so a policy change can never silently reuse a stale image. Tests are pure
bash: 161 assertions start no container and touch no network, 256 run real
ones, including proof that a raw socket, a stripped proxy env and DNS all stay
blocked while an allowlisted host works over both http and CONNECT.

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# ai-sandbox -- development tasks. Everything runs with the tools already on this
# machine plus podman; nothing needs to be installed system-wide.
SHELL := /bin/bash
BIN := bin/ai-sandbox
SHELLCHECK_IMAGE := docker.io/koalaman/shellcheck:stable
.PHONY: help test e2e check lint style doctor build clean-demo all
help: ## show this help
@grep -hE '^[a-zA-Z_-]+:.*?## ' $(MAKEFILE_LIST) | awk -F':.*?## ' '{printf " %-12s %s\n", $$1, $$2}'
test: ## unit tests only (no containers, no network)
./tests/run.sh
e2e: ## everything, including real containers and real egress tests
./tests/run.sh --e2e
check: lint test ## lint + unit tests (what CI would run)
lint: ## shellcheck every shell file, in a container (nothing installed locally)
@podman run --rm -v "$(CURDIR):/src:ro,z" -w /src $(SHELLCHECK_IMAGE) \
--severity=warning --shell=bash --exclude=SC1091 \
bin/ai-sandbox install.sh tests/run.sh tests/lib.sh tests/spike_network.sh \
$$(ls tests/unit/*.sh tests/e2e/*.sh) \
&& echo "shellcheck: clean"
style: ## bash-style syntax check of every shell file (fast, no deps)
@for f in $(BIN) install.sh tests/*.sh tests/unit/*.sh tests/e2e/*.sh; do \
[ -f "$$f" ] || continue; bash -n "$$f" || exit 1; \
done; echo "bash -n: clean"
doctor: ## verify this machine can run the sandbox
@$(BIN) doctor
build: ## build the sandbox and gate images
@$(BIN) build --gate
clean-demo: ## remove sandbox containers, gates and stale session files
@$(BIN) clean --all