Pi pod - Self-hosted sandboxes for your pi coding agent
Show HN: Pi pod – Run your pi coding agent in sandboxes on your own server
Pi pod lets you run your pi coding agent in isolated sandboxes on your own server, giving you true ownership and privacy. It bundles sandboxing, native clients, RBAC session sharing, and surface automation into a simple, elegant environment. Self-host it for free from the GitHub repository, or wait for the upcoming hosted service with a 7-day trial. Perfect for developers and businesses wanting a secure, customizable agentic engineering setup without lock-in.
Self-hosting of course allows for true ownership and privacy, making this project yours to own and customize to your liking.
- jorl17
I've been working on a personal alternative harness to Claude Code and a very very small part of it was doing precisely this :) The project has been loads of fun.
To be fair: I support sandboxing and microVMs.
I'm pretty sure there's thousands of us, all implementing our own harnesses. The era of truly personal computing!
- ulimn
I'll be sure to check this out but in the meantime, I'd like to ask: Isn't it generally a good practice to run coding agents in a VM? It provides a security boundary so that the agent is restricted to the VM.
How does this compare? I see it's an "isolated sandbox", but what exactly does that mean?
- embik
Note: this does not appear to be a Kubernetes-based solution, the "pod" part just heavily sounds like it.
- ineptech
Hi, I think I might be your target audience, I currently run pi on the server in my basement, in a minimalist docker container that gives it access to my code workspace and a config dir. Give me an idea what benefit I get on top of that by using the self-hosted pi pod?
- fallinditch
Interesting, thanks, will keep an eye on this