feat(macos): run containers inside a bottle via guest-local podman
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Adds the `nested_containers` bottle flag. On the macOS backend it starts
a rootless podman service inside the bottle and exposes its
Docker-compatible API socket, so the agent still runs `docker` and
`docker compose`. No host daemon socket is mounted and the guest gains
no capabilities; backends that cannot run a guest-local engine reject
the flag in the shared prepare template rather than ignoring it.

Podman rather than rootless Docker because Apple Container's capability
bounding set omits CAP_SYS_ADMIN, which the kernel requires to write a
multi-range uid_map via newuidmap. With no subordinate UID range podman
falls back to a single-UID self-mapping an unprivileged process may
write itself, so the image build strips /etc/subuid and /etc/subgid
entries rather than adding them.

That mapping is also why nested containers are not an isolation layer:
root inside one is the agent user outside it. They are a build/test
convenience; the bottle remains the boundary.

Ports the spike branch onto main, renaming docker_access — it implied
Docker and granted access to nothing on the host — and drops podman
from the derived layer now that every built-in image ships it (#451).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ from ..bottle_state import (
)
from ..egress import Egress, EgressPlan
from ..git_gate import GitGate, GitGatePlan
from ..log import die
from ..manifest import Manifest, ManifestBottle
from ..supervise import Supervise, SupervisePlan
from . import BottleSpec
@@ -112,6 +113,22 @@ def merge_provision_env_vars(provision: AgentProvisionPlan) -> AgentProvisionPla
return replace(provision, guest_env=merged)
def reject_nested_containers(backend: str, manifest: Manifest) -> None:
"""Fail loudly when a backend cannot honor `nested_containers: true`.
Silently ignoring it would hand the agent a bottle where `docker` is not
there — and the only sound alternatives on these backends (a host daemon
socket, a privileged container) are exactly what issue #392 rules out.
"""
if not manifest.bottle.nested_containers:
return
die(
f"nested_containers is not supported on the {backend} backend. "
"Only macos-container runs a guest-local container engine today; "
"mounting the host Docker socket is not an option bot-bottle offers."
)
def resolve_manifest_dockerfile(path_value: str, spec: BottleSpec) -> str:
"""Resolve a manifest-supplied dockerfile path relative to user_cwd."""
path = Path(os.path.expanduser(path_value))
@@ -122,6 +139,7 @@ def resolve_manifest_dockerfile(path_value: str, spec: BottleSpec) -> str:
__all__ = [
"merge_provision_env_vars",
"reject_nested_containers",
"mint_slug",
"prepare_agent_state_dir",
"prepare_egress",