Sandboxing AI Coding Agents with lincubate

Short summary

lincubate is an open-source Go tool that runs AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor inside isolated LXD containers, preventing stray configuration and skills from unrelated projects from contaminating test environments. It bind-mounts project files while keeping ~/.claude/ and other host configs out unless explicitly opted in via flags. The tool supports eight agents, offers per-project persistent containers, and requires zero configuration to start, with optional customization through a generated TOML config file.

• •lincubate sandboxes AI coding agents in LXD containers to isolate them from host configs and unrelated skills
• •Supports Claude Code, Codex, Aider, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode, and Cursor with simple lb <agent> commands
• •Written in Go as a static binary with zero runtime dependencies; open-source on GitHub

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