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# bot-bottle
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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.
**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.
## Features
- **Per-bottle egress allowlist** — TLS-bumped HTTP/HTTPS chokepoint with a per-manifest host allowlist and request-body DLP scanner; DoH and arbitrary hosts blocked by default.
- **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.
- **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.
- **Manifest-scoped skills + secrets** — each bottle declares its skills, env, git identity, remotes, and egress routes; unknown keys die at load.
- **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.
- **Composable bottles (`extends:`)** — keep provider/runtime policy in one base bottle (e.g. `claude.md`) and overlay task bottles on top.
- **Parallel, isolated bottles** — each bottle runs in its own backend-owned isolation boundary; bottles don't share state or talk to each other.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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.
- **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.
- **Legacy Docker backend** — still available for examples, CI, and hosts without Apple Container via `BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND=docker` or `--backend=docker`.
## Architecture
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.
On the smolmachines backend, a bottle is an agent micro-VM plus a Docker sidecar bundle for egress, git-gate, and supervise. The VM reaches the sidecars through a per-bottle loopback alias allowed by TSI; smolmachines handles DNS filtering below the guest OS.
On the legacy Docker backend, the same logical bottle is two containers per agent: an `agent` container and a `sidecars` container. They share a per-agent Docker `--internal` network; the agent has no default route off-box.
The Docker topology looks like this:
```
host ( ./cli.py )
starts │ stops
┌─────────────────────────── bottle ──────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ ┌──────────────────┐ ┌──────────────────────┐ │
│ │ agent image │ HTTP(S) proxy │ egress image │ │
│ │ (claude-code, │ ─────────────────►│ (mitmproxy; TLS bump │ │ HTTPS to
│ │ codex, etc) │ │ DLP scan, path │───┼──► allowlisted
│ │ │ │ matching, auth │ │ hosts
│ │ environ: proxy │ │ injection) │ │
│ │ URLs only, no │ └──────────────────────┘ │
│ │ real tokens │ │
│ │ │ git proxy ┌────────────────┐ │ SSH push/fetch
│ │ │ ────────────────►│ git-gate image │──────────┼──► to bottle.git
│ │ │ │ (gitleaks + │ │ upstreams
│ └──────────────────┘ │ git daemon) │ │ (direct — not
│ └────────────────┘ │ via egress)
│ │
│ agent on internal network (no default route); egress and │
│ git-gate straddle internal + egress networks. │
│ egress is the single HTTP/HTTPS chokepoint — all agent HTTP/HTTPS │
│ traffic flows through it. git-gate's SSH egress is direct │
│ because egress is HTTP-only. │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
When the agent exits, `cli.py` tears down every sidecar and both networks; nothing about a bottle persists between runs.
## Install
Install the CLI with the bootstrap script:
```sh
curl -fsSL https://gitea.dideric.is/didericis/bot-bottle/raw/branch/main/install.sh | sh
```
The script checks Python 3.11+, checks Docker daemon reachability, creates the `~/.bot-bottle/` config directories, installs the Python package with `pipx` when available or `pip --user` otherwise, then runs:
```sh
bot-bottle doctor
```
Python-native installers can use the package metadata directly:
```sh
pipx install git+https://gitea.dideric.is/didericis/bot-bottle.git
uv tool install git+https://gitea.dideric.is/didericis/bot-bottle.git
```
## Quickstart
On compatible macOS hosts, the default backend requires Apple's `container` CLI and does not require Docker. The smolmachines backend requires Docker on the host for the sidecar bundle plus smolvm. The legacy Docker backend requires Docker. Claude bottles also need a long-lived Claude Code OAuth token (`claude setup-token`) exported as `BOT_BOTTLE_CLAUDE_OAUTH_TOKEN`.
Use `BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND=docker ./cli.py start <agent>` on hosts where Apple Container is not installed and Docker is the desired backend.
```sh
./cli.py start <agent> # builds the image on first run, drops you into claude
```
## Manifest
Bottles and agents are Markdown files with YAML frontmatter under `~/.bot-bottle/`. The Markdown body is the system prompt. Bottles live in `~/.bot-bottle/bottles/`; agents may also be shipped by a repo at `<repo>/.bot-bottle/agents/<name>.md`.
**Bottle** (`~/.bot-bottle/bottles/gitea-dev.md`):
````markdown
---
extends: claude # inherit the Claude provider boundary
env:
GIT_AUTHOR_NAME: didericis
git:
user:
name: "Eric Bauerfeld"
email: "eric+claude@dideric.is"
remotes:
gitea.dideric.is:
Name: bot-bottle
Upstream: ssh://git@gitea.dideric.is:30009/didericis/bot-bottle.git
IdentityFile: /Users/didericis/.ssh/id_ed25519_gitea
KnownHostKey: ssh-ed25519 AAAA...
egress:
routes:
- host: gitea.dideric.is
auth:
scheme: token
token_ref: BOT_BOTTLE_GITEA_TOKEN
---
The `gitea-dev` bottle. Provider auth via the inherited Claude route;
gitea over SSH for push, token over HTTPS for the API.
````
**Agent** (`~/.bot-bottle/agents/gitea-helper.md`):
````markdown
---
bottle: gitea-dev
skills:
- init-prd
---
You help maintain Gitea-hosted projects.
````
More examples in `examples/`. Full design lives under `docs/prds/`; the trust-boundary rationale is in `docs/prds/0011-per-file-md-manifest.md`.
## Trademarks
bot-bottle is an independent project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic, PBC. "Claude" and "Claude Code" are trademarks of Anthropic, PBC; the project name uses "claude" descriptively to indicate that the tool runs Claude Code inside a sandbox.
## License
Copyright 2026 Eric Bauerfeld. Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See [LICENSE](LICENSE) for the full text.