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coderunner

A local sandbox for your AI agents

5Distinct people
33Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
902GitHub stars
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What to know before exploring

What it is

A local sandbox for your AI agents

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Where it is used

No documented product use has been verified yet.

What people are saying

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Also in these discussions

Mentioned in the same Hacker News threads. That is not proof they are substitutes.

This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 6:01:08 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by month33 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2025-06-24 17:41:01 UTC to 2026-07-13 17:36:31 UTC.

024682025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 3 submissions, 5 commentsJun 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsDec 20252026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 commentsJul 2026

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Jun 20252025-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC835
Jul 20252025-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC404
Aug 20252025-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Sep 20252025-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Oct 20252025-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC312
Nov 20252025-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC101
Dec 20252025-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jan 20262026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC303
Feb 20262026-02-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Mar 20262026-03-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC211
Apr 20262026-04-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC000
May 20262026-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jun 20262026-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC202
Jul 20262026-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-08-01 00:00:00 UTC202

What Hacker News says

4 sources
I have actually been working on something similar but instead of Docker, I am using Apple’s builtin container[1] support to run shell commands and code with real OS-level isolation. It’s fast (spawns in milliseconds) and integrates nicely with things like Claude Code and the Gemini CLI. I open sourced it as CodeRunner[2]. Would love to hear what people think or chat about how it compares. 1. Apple container: https://github.com/apple/container 2. CodeRunner: https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner Caveat: You need M1/M2/M3/M4 mac for this to work. MacOS 26 is optional but recommended.
In Switching to Claude Code and VSCode Inside Docker
We looked at Pyodide and WASM along with other options like firecracker for our need of multi-step tasks that require running LLM generated code locally via Ollama etc. with some form of isolation than running it directly on our dev machines and figured it would be too much work with the various external libraries we have to install. The idea was to get code generated by a powerful remote LLM for general purpose stuff like video editing via ffmpeg, beautiful graphs generation via JS + chromium and stuff and execute it locally with all dependencies being installed before execution. We built CodeRunner (https://github.com/BandarLabs/coderunner) on top of Apple Containers recently and have been using it for sometime. This works fine but still needs some improvement to work across very arbitrary prompts.
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