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Claude Compose Sandbox: Flexible Docker Environment for AI Agents

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Daniel Ancuta
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Daniel Ancuta
Backend team lead, with 19 years of hands-on experience with modern technologies, as well as 7 years of experience in leading of development teams. Let us get in touch!

Running AI agents locally is great until you realize they have full access to your machine. One wrong command and you could lose important files.

Docker sandboxes solve this, but the official one lacks flexibility - no persistent workspaces, no multi-instance support, limited customization.

So I built claude-compose-sandbox - a Docker Compose-based environment that gives you:

  • Persistent workspaces - installed packages and files survive between sessions
  • Multi-instance support - run multiple Claude instances in parallel
  • Zero-config Git - automatic SSH agent forwarding and config mounting
  • Full flexibility - it’s just Docker Compose, customize however you want

Check it out: github.com/whisller/claude-compose-sandbox

Note: This article was written with assistance from Claude (Anthropic). The experiences, code, and opinions are my own, but AI helped structure and articulate them.