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Host sandbox

Run commands directly on the host machine, suitable for local development and cases that should not inject vault env.

Terminal window
mikan --sandbox=host /path/to/workspace

Features:

  • commands run directly on the host machine
  • vault env is not injected
  • /pi-login can still store credentials in state-dir/vaults, keyed by platform user; env entries simply go unused, but a file credential in that vault fails the run with Sandbox type "host" does not support vault file mounts
  • bash commands start in the mikan process’s own working directory

host cannot enforce a conversation-scoped workspace projection: there is nothing to mount into, and the tools see whatever the host user can see. mikan therefore refuses to run when the office’s door policy is isolated — which is the default — with:

Sandbox 'host' cannot provide an isolated conversation office; use image:* or gondolin:default,
or explicitly choose trusted workspace policy

To use host mode, choose a trusted policy explicitly, either globally in <state-dir>/settings.json:

{
"sandbox": {
"workspace": { "doorPolicy": "trusted", "layout": "shared-support" }
}
}

or per conversation from the admin portal. The /pi-sandbox chat command is not available in host mode — it only serves the managed image:* and gondolin:* sandboxes.

Suitable for:

  • local development on a machine you already trust with the whole workspace
  • cases where you do not want mikan to put vault credentials into host command processes

Not suitable for shared or multi-tenant deployments: host mode gives every conversation the same filesystem and process view as mikan itself. Use image:<image> there instead.