SideKernel: A Usable microVM Sandbox for AI Coding Agents on macOS

Reported by arXiv cs.CR (Dimitrios Prasakis)

Summary by Cyber Security News5 Oct 2026, 06:00 CET

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arXiv:2610.02456v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: AI coding agents are untrusted system components, yet they require autonomy on the developer machines they run on. This contradiction is a security problem. Sandboxes provide an isolated environment, but for local macOS development, the existing local, open-source options for AI coding agents are few in number and cumbersome to use.

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