I did some investigation into podman since I'm on Fedora and my limited understanding is that it is a bit more lightweight and less tied to the commercial Docker offering. My conclusion was that even that was a bit more than is actually needed. Both Opus 5.5 and Sol 6.1 suggested just to set up a single `agents` user on the box that both use and put things like shared dev credentials into a ~/.config/agents subfolder.

But there are many tiny details to the whole setup. Like, making sure services start at boot instead of login. And adding isolation to dev resources (I mostly use Postgres and Redis) to avoid agents stepping on each other. There's also things like setting up GitHub Apps so that attribution works well. And then there are the "remote control" features of Claude vs. a persistent tmux I can ssh into. I've could go on, but I think most people will get the point.

I'm actually surprised I don't see more discussion about this from devs.