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Capsem – a Rust hypervisor sandboxing AI agents in air-gapped Linux VMs

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Capsem is a new Rust-based hypervisor designed to sandbox AI coding agents within isolated, air-gapped Linux virtual machines. It provides security features like read-only filesystems and MITM proxy inspection to ensure safe execution of AI tools.

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As AI agents gain more autonomy and access to local environments, robust sandboxing is critical to prevent malicious code execution and data exfiltration.

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A Rust-powered hypervisor that sandboxes every AI coding agent in its own air-gapped Linux VM. See everything, control everything.

Learn More Ready to code, out of the box A fully configured Linux dev environment with your favorite AI agents, MCP tools, and packages pre-installed. Boot to prompt in under 10 seconds.

All major AI coding agents, pre-installed and auto-configured for sandbox mode.

Policy-checked tool access over vsock. Built-in tools plus custom MCP servers via fastmcp.

Python, Node.js, and 30+ packages ready to go. No setup required.

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