docs: reposition README around provider-neutral secure substrate
Lead with the agnostic + security story instead of the single-user security framing. New hero positions bot-bottle as a neutral control plane that runs any agent (Claude, Codex, or a drop-in contrib plugin) inside an isolation boundary the agent can't touch. Restructure Features into three pillars — neutral substrate, isolation boundary, host-matched isolation — promoting provider-agnosticism (PRD 0053 user plugins) from a buried bullet to a headline. No capability claims changed; per-provider auth/image detail preserved as a note linking to Manifest. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01YcU7nerbg8cVj9R4EkpfLJ
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**Problem:** Developer wants to run a coding agent without supervision, but they don't want a prompt injected or misbehaving agent wrecking their environment or exfiltrating sensitive data.
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**Run any coding agent like it might be compromised — and lose nothing when it is.**
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**Solution:** Ephemeral, per agent "bottles" the agent cannot modify that scan all traffic for data exfiltration and limit capabilities and egress to only what the agent needs.
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bot-bottle is a provider-neutral, security-first substrate for autonomous agents. Bring Claude Code, Codex, or your own harness; each one runs in an ephemeral, per-agent "bottle" it cannot modify, where every byte of egress is scanned for exfiltration and capabilities are narrowed to exactly what the task declares.
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## Features
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**Problem:** You want to let a coding agent run unsupervised, but a prompt-injected or misbehaving agent — or a poisoned repo, MCP server, or skill — can wreck your environment or exfiltrate your secrets. Locking yourself to one vendor's cloud doesn't fix that; it just moves the blast radius.
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**Solution:** A neutral control plane that runs *whatever agent you choose* inside an isolation boundary the agent can't touch: TLS-bumped egress allowlisting, outbound/inbound DLP, gitleaks-gated pushes, and host secrets the agent never sees. Swap the agent; keep the guarantees.
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## Why bot-bottle
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### A neutral substrate — bring your own agent
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- **Provider-agnostic by design** — Claude and Codex ship built in; any other agent (Gemini, Aider, a local-model wrapper) is a drop-in plugin at `~/.bot-bottle/contrib/<name>/` — no fork, no PR against this repo. The manifest accepts any provider template, and the isolation, egress, and git guarantees are identical across all of them.
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- **One control plane, every harness** — the same bottle, egress policy, and supervise flow wrap whichever agent you run, so switching or mixing providers doesn't change your security posture.
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- **Composable bottles (`extends:`)** — keep provider/runtime policy in one base bottle (e.g. `claude.md`) and overlay task bottles on top.
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### An isolation boundary the agent can't touch
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- **Per-bottle egress allowlist** — TLS-bumped HTTP/HTTPS chokepoint with a per-manifest host allowlist; per-route path/method/header `matches` filtering; outbound DLP scanning for known tokens and secrets, inbound DLP scanning for prompt-injection attempts; DoH and arbitrary hosts blocked by default.
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- **Per-bottle egress allowlist** — TLS-bumped HTTP/HTTPS chokepoint with a per-manifest host allowlist; per-route path/method/header `matches` filtering; outbound DLP scanning for known tokens and secrets, inbound DLP scanning for prompt-injection attempts; DoH and arbitrary hosts blocked by default.
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- **Tokens the agent never sees** — host secrets live in a sidecar; the agent dials `http://sidecar:9099/<path>` and the proxy strips inbound `Authorization` and injects the real token before forwarding. `printenv` in the agent shows proxy URLs only.
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- **Tokens the agent never sees** — host secrets live in a sidecar; the agent dials `http://sidecar:9099/<path>` and the proxy strips inbound `Authorization` and injects the real token before forwarding. `printenv` in the agent shows proxy URLs only.
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- **Gitleaks-scanned push (git-gate)** — `bottle.git` remotes route through a per-bottle `git daemon` that gitleaks-scans incoming refs pre-receive and forwards clean refs upstream over SSH. The agent never holds the upstream credential.
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- **Gitleaks-scanned push (git-gate)** — `bottle.git` remotes route through a per-bottle `git daemon` that gitleaks-scans incoming refs pre-receive and forwards clean refs upstream over SSH. The agent never holds the upstream credential.
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- **Manifest-scoped skills + secrets** — each bottle declares its skills, env, git identity, remotes, and egress routes; unknown keys die at load.
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- **Manifest-scoped skills + secrets** — each bottle declares its skills, env, git identity, remotes, and egress routes; unknown keys die at load.
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- **Trust boundary at `$HOME`** — bottles (credentials, egress, remotes) live only under `~/.bot-bottle/bottles/`. Repos may ship agents but not bottles, so a cloned repo can't redirect an env var to an attacker host.
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- **Trust boundary at `$HOME`** — bottles (credentials, egress, remotes) live only under `~/.bot-bottle/bottles/`. Repos may ship agents but not bottles, so a cloned repo can't redirect an env var to an attacker host.
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- **Composable bottles (`extends:`)** — keep provider/runtime policy in one base bottle (e.g. `claude.md`) and overlay task bottles on top.
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### Isolation that matches your host
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- **Parallel, isolated bottles** — each bottle runs in its own backend-owned isolation boundary; bottles don't share state or talk to each other.
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- **Parallel, isolated bottles** — each bottle runs in its own backend-owned isolation boundary; bottles don't share state or talk to each other.
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- **Provider templates (Claude, Codex)** — `Dockerfile.claude` / `Dockerfile.codex`, or a bottle-supplied Dockerfile. Claude auth via long-lived OAuth token; Codex via opt-in host device-auth forwarding.
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- **gVisor auto-detect** — on Linux hosts where `runsc` is registered with Docker, every bottle launches under it for a userspace syscall barrier; no manifest config required.
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- **gVisor auto-detect** — on Linux hosts where `runsc` is registered with Docker, every bottle launches under it for a userspace syscall barrier; no manifest config required.
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- **Apple Container backend (macOS default when available)** — runs the agent and sidecar bundle with Apple's `container` CLI, using a host-only agent network plus a separate sidecar egress network.
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- **Apple Container backend (macOS default when available)** — runs the agent and sidecar bundle with Apple's `container` CLI, using a host-only agent network plus a separate sidecar egress network.
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- **Smolmachines backend** — runs the agent in a libkrun micro-VM while the sidecar bundle stays in Docker. TSI and smolmachines DNS filtering close the raw DNS exfiltration gap that exists in the legacy Docker backend.
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- **Smolmachines backend** — runs the agent in a libkrun micro-VM while the sidecar bundle stays in Docker. TSI and smolmachines DNS filtering close the raw DNS exfiltration gap that exists in the legacy Docker backend.
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- **Legacy Docker backend** — still available for examples, CI, and hosts without Apple Container via `BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND=docker` or `--backend=docker`.
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- **Legacy Docker backend** — still available for examples, CI, and hosts without Apple Container via `BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND=docker` or `--backend=docker`.
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Per-provider auth (Claude long-lived OAuth token; Codex opt-in host device-auth forwarding) and per-provider images (`Dockerfile.claude` / `Dockerfile.codex`, or a bottle-supplied Dockerfile) are configured on the bottle — see [Manifest](#manifest).
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## Architecture
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## Architecture
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On the default macOS Apple Container backend, a bottle is an agent container on a host-only internal network plus a sidecar bundle attached to both that internal network and a NAT egress network. The agent gets HTTP(S)_PROXY and CA bundle env vars pointing at the sidecar's internal-network IP, so HTTP/HTTPS traffic flows through the sidecar instead of direct egress. `bottle.git` / git-gate is intentionally deferred on this backend until a safe Apple Container key-delivery path exists.
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On the default macOS Apple Container backend, a bottle is an agent container on a host-only internal network plus a sidecar bundle attached to both that internal network and a NAT egress network. The agent gets HTTP(S)_PROXY and CA bundle env vars pointing at the sidecar's internal-network IP, so HTTP/HTTPS traffic flows through the sidecar instead of direct egress. `bottle.git` / git-gate is intentionally deferred on this backend until a safe Apple Container key-delivery path exists.
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