share the host ~/.agents read-only, so skills come along
A sandboxed harness found none of your skills, prompt templates or standing AGENTS.md, because those live in ~/.agents and only the project was mounted. It is now bind-mounted at /home/sandbox/.agents by default -- bound, never copied -- with --no-agents to opt out and --agents-dir for a curated set, reported by --print-policy and by doctor. Read-only is the load-bearing part and has no escape hatch: a skill is an instruction the model follows later, on the host, so a sandbox that could write ~/.agents had a persistence path out of itself, planted as a helpful-looking SKILL.md. It holds even under --insecure-keep-root, the mount lands after /home/sandbox itself so it cannot be shadowed by the home volume or tmpfs, and an explicit --mount on the same destination wins because podman refuses duplicates. A missing or unreadable directory is a silent skip like the pi bridge's; an explicit --agents-dir that resolves to nothing is a hard error. The exposure is stated in docs/threat-model.md: the tree, its .git history and anything pasted into a skill are readable by whatever runs in there. tests/unit/09_agents.sh covers resolution, precedence and the bind-never-copy canary; tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh mounts it in a real container, checks the host tree survives a run byte for byte and that even root inside the sandbox cannot write it. LLM-Generated: true
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| Attack | Stopped by | Evidence |
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| Editing / deleting anything outside the project directory | only `$PWD` is mounted; the rest of the host is not in the mount namespace | `tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh` |
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| Editing / deleting anything outside the project directory | `$PWD` is the only writable mount; the rest of the host is not in the mount namespace | `tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh` |
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| Rewriting your skills, prompts or global `AGENTS.md` | `~/.agents` is mounted, but read-only, and there is no flag to change that | `tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh` |
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| Reading `~/.ssh`, `~/.aws`, `~/.config/gcloud`, browser profiles | same as above; those paths do not exist in the container | `tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh` |
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| Exfiltrating your environment (API keys for *other* services) | nothing is passed through unless named with `--env` | `tests/unit/04_env.sh`, `tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh` |
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| Passing secrets through the process list to other users | values travel in a `0600` file, never in argv | `tests/e2e/12_sandbox.sh` |
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@@ -70,7 +71,18 @@ Be honest about these, and design your work accordingly.
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10. **Rootless podman still means shared kernel and shared UID namespace.** Files
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the container writes are owned by *you*. There is no uid boundary between
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"agent's file" and "your file" beyond ownership metadata and your own discipline.
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11. **The pi bridge reads a file that may hold a live key.** It rewrites `apiKey` to
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11. **Your `~/.agents` is readable inside the sandbox.** This is a deliberate
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exception to "only your project directory is mounted", because a harness without
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your skills is a harness you re-brief every run: `~/.agents` arrives read-only at
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`/home/sandbox/.agents` (`--no-agents` for a run without it, `--agents-dir` for a
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curated set). Read-only means the agent cannot write a `SKILL.md` that you will
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follow tomorrow on the host — that is the part that matters, and it holds even under
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`--insecure-keep-root`. It does *not* mean the contents are secret: the whole tree,
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including its `.git` history and any token someone pasted into a skill, is readable
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by whatever you run in there. Treat a shared skill directory as published to the
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agent, lint it for secrets (`skill-lint`), and keep credentials in the environment
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you pass explicitly rather than in a file that is mounted everywhere.
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12. **The pi bridge reads a file that may hold a live key.** It rewrites `apiKey` to
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an environment reference and never copies `auth.json`, but the *endpoint* in your
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`models.json` becomes an endpoint the sandbox can be pointed at, and the token it
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uses is your real one. So the bridged config is a convenience, not a narrower
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