| Network policy | Default-deny via own egress scanner + per-bottle allowlist + content DLP + gitleaks on git push | Capability model only | Limited | Not addressed | Default-deny + allowlist + secret-injecting proxy | Default-deny + logging | Per-VM net (unverified) | Not documented | Off by default + allowlist | Default-deny allowlist + instant egress block + audit logs + per-sandbox tokens (eBPF) + credential vault |
| Parallel agents | Yes (one bottle per agent) | n/a | Not addressed | One at a time | Multiple VMs | Yes (dashboard) | SDK-level | SDK-level | Architectural | Yes (2,000+/host claimed) |
| Long-running posture | Persistent by default (named, supervised) | n/a (demo) | Session (up while in use) | Per-invocation | Ephemeral VM per run | Per-run (versioned) | Ephemeral + snapshot/fork | Ephemeral / on-demand | Named persistent by default | Ephemeral + auto pause/resume |
| DX: run Claude yolo-style | One command → interactive yolo Claude (`start <agent>`, `--dangerously-skip-permissions` default) | n/a (lib demo) | Wizard + build, then run claude inside (Linux only) | One-command wrapper (`safehouse claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`) | CLI: run a cmd in a VM (not a Claude wrapper) | Hosted (`tilde exec`), not local-native | SDK code required (build the run yourself) | CLI/MCP: sandbox-as-a-tool for the agent, not a wrapper around it | SSH into a named machine, run claude there | Stand up a cluster + drive via E2B SDK |
| Isolation | MicroVM per bottle default (Firecracker/KVM on Linux, Apple Container on macOS) + own egress DLP scanner; Docker legacy fallback, gVisor there if present | Object-capability (no OS isolation) | Podman + opt. Landlock | macOS `sandbox-exec` | MicroVM (Firecracker / Virt.fw) | Hosted container (unverified) | MicroVM (KVM / Hypervisor.fw) | MicroVM (libkrun) | MicroVM (libkrun / KVM) | MicroVM (RustVMM / KVM) | MicroVM (Firecracker / Virt.fw) | Docker container + git worktree | MicroVM (proprietary) | OS-level (Seatbelt / bubblewrap / WFP) — no container |
| Local vs hosted | Local | Local | Local (Linux) | Local (macOS) | Local | Hosted SaaS | Local | Local | Local | Self-hosted (server/cluster) | Self-hosted server | Local | Local | Local |
| Agent target | Claude Code | Generic (demo) | Generic | Multi-agent wrapper | Generic (+ Claude/OpenAI SDKs) | Claude focus | Generic | Claude + Cursor (MCP/Skills) | Generic (AGENTS.md) | E2B-compatible (platform builders) | CI / generic process | Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf (MCP) | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Kiro | Claude Code (and any process) |
| Network policy | Default-deny via own egress scanner + per-bottle allowlist + content DLP + gitleaks on git push | Capability model only | Limited | Not addressed | Default-deny + allowlist + secret-injecting proxy | Default-deny + logging | Per-VM net (unverified) | Not documented | Off by default + allowlist | Default-deny allowlist + instant egress block + audit logs + per-sandbox tokens (eBPF) + credential vault | Default-deny + per-repo host allowlist (cleanroom.yaml) | Not addressed | Default-deny; Open / Balanced / Locked Down presets; live TUI network panel | Proxy-based allowlist/denylist (HTTP + SOCKS5); custom proxy supported |
| Parallel agents | Yes (one bottle per agent) | n/a | Not addressed | One at a time | Multiple VMs | Yes (dashboard) | SDK-level | SDK-level | Architectural | Yes (2,000+/host claimed) | Yes (server model) | Yes (per-agent containers + worktrees) | Yes | Yes |
| Long-running posture | Persistent by default (named, supervised) | n/a (demo) | Session (up while in use) | Per-invocation | Ephemeral VM per run | Per-run (versioned) | Ephemeral + snapshot/fork | Ephemeral / on-demand | Named persistent by default | Ephemeral + auto pause/resume | Per-run + suspend/resume | Per-agent container (ephemeral) | Per-session; branch mode creates git worktree in .sbx/ | Per-invocation |
| DX: run Claude yolo-style | One command → interactive yolo Claude (`start <agent>`, `--dangerously-skip-permissions` default) | n/a (lib demo) | Wizard + build, then run claude inside (Linux only) | One-command wrapper (`safehouse claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`) | CLI: run a cmd in a VM (not a Claude wrapper) | Hosted (`tilde exec`), not local-native | SDK code required (build the run yourself) | CLI/MCP: sandbox-as-a-tool for the agent, not a wrapper around it | SSH into a named machine, run claude there | Stand up a cluster + drive via E2B SDK | CI-oriented, not a Claude wrapper | MCP server: `claude mcp add container-use -- container-use stdio` | One command: `sbx` wraps claude with `--dangerously-skip-permissions` default | Library/wrapper, not a standalone CLI |
| Agent-tailored policy | Yes — bottle/agent split; declarative per-role egress + credentials; composable via `extends:` | Partial — capability model scopes per-agent, but no declarative role manifest | No | Partial — per-agent profile files (Seatbelt); no egress | No | Yes — per-agent DSL RBAC (allow/deny/approve per action/repo/agent) | No | No | No | No — per-sandbox SDK config, not role-scoped | Partial — per-repo cleanroom.yaml, not per-role | No | No — network presets only | No |
| Maturity | Active July 2026 | Research (2022+) | Early (~66 ⭐) | Active (~1.4k ⭐) | Experimental (~574 ⭐) | Private preview | YC, ~4.7k ⭐ | YC, ~6k ⭐, beta | ~3.1k ⭐ | Tencent, prod, ~10.4k ⭐ | Active (Buildkite product) | Early development | GA 2026 | Early research preview |
## What's closest, what's different
@@ -233,11 +382,41 @@ existing OS primitive, low-dep. The split is the isolation primitive —
bot-bottle now defaults to a VM per bottle (Firecracker microVM on KVM
Linux, Apple Container on macOS) with its own DLP-scanning egress proxy,
keeping Docker only as a legacy fallback; agent-safehouse uses
`sandbox-exec`; litterbox
uses Podman + Landlock. matchlock and smolmachines are close on *both* the
policy side (default-deny net, per-host allowlist) and — now that
bot-bottle has moved off containers-by-default — the microVM isolation
primitive.
`sandbox-exec`; litterbox uses Podman + Landlock. matchlock and
smolmachines are close on *both* the policy side (default-deny net,
per-host allowlist) and — now that bot-bottle has moved off
containers-by-default — the microVM isolation primitive.
**New closest on agent-tailored policy.** Two governance tools are the
direct competitors on the "coarse-grained sandbox" axis. **tilde.run**
has had per-agent DSL RBAC since its launch (though it's hosted SaaS).
**Microsoft AGT** is the most serious new entrant: per-agent DID
identity, YAML policy that can allow/deny/sandbox/approve individual tool
calls per agent, and a dynamic behavioural trust score. It operates at
the framework tool-call layer, not the network layer — so it's
complementary to bot-bottle's network/filesystem isolation rather than a
direct substitute, but on the "does this sandbox know what this agent is
for?" question it is the most complete answer in the field. OAP's
pre-action hook pattern achieves similar goals with cryptographic audit
and a 0% adversarial-attack success rate under a restrictive policy.
**New closest on DX.****Docker sbx** is the first tool in this set that
matches bot-bottle on the "one command, dangerously-skip-permissions safe
by default" DX bar, at microVM isolation strength, with host-side
credential injection. It is proprietary, preset-based (not role-
declarative), and cloud-agent-specific, but it directly competes on the
UX proposition. agent-safehouse was the previous DX peer; Docker sbx
materially raises the bar.
**New closest on repo-scoped policy.****Cleanroom** (Buildkite) is the
first tool to combine microVM isolation with a declarative egress policy
file — though the policy lives in the repo being sandboxed
(`cleanroom.yaml`), not in an agent-role manifest. That makes it per-
repo rather than per-role: the same Cleanroom config applies to any
agent running in that repo. The distinction matters for bot-bottle's
use case (one developer running multiple agent *roles* with different
egress footprints), but for CI/CD use cases Cleanroom is a direct
alternative.
**Solving a different problem.** tilde.run is hosted SaaS for team /
production agent pipelines with data-versioned rollback — explicitly
@@ -409,3 +588,57 @@ Why it matters anyway:
and per-sandbox egress tokens (eBPF virtual switch vs. bot-bottle's
mitmproxy egress proxy) before the next iteration of bot-bottle's
in-flight-secret feature — see borrowable idea #2 above.
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