Coding Agents in KVM: Practical Containment and User Control with Limited Resources
[Inżynieria oprogramowania] Autorzy: Yutaka Nagashima
Coding agents often need broad authority for productive development work, but granting that authority can expose users' data and infrastructure. Off-the-shelf cloud workspaces can help contain agent activity, but reliance on provider-specific platforms can lead to vendor lock-in and reduced user control. Researchers and engineers must therefore balance agent autonomy, enforced containment, and user control within available financial, computational, and human resources. We analyze these trade-offs and present KVM-Agent, an open-source implementation that automates most setup and provisioning steps. It gives agents broad authority inside replaceable Ubuntu VMs while keeping host administration outside those VMs and supporting multiple coding-agent applications, model services, and remote job delegation. The approach retains familiar workflows and user choice at the cost of VM resources, m…
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