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Today I used Claude Desktop after not having used it for a while. It ran bash commands on my machine, like starting brew services etc. It did not have that capability before (I used to hook up some mcp to allow selective file editing), and nobody warned me that it currently has. Shady tactics, very invasive, freaked me out.
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Can you share some more detail of how you would implement this? Are you thinking something like VirtualBox (?), running a virtual machine, and you're using - for example, OpenCode terminal in the VM...?
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I've used pretty much this type of setup:

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-02-01-coding-agent-...

If you want something not NixOS-related, smolmachines.com (I haven't tried this yet) gets mentioned here a lot.

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