The Blackwall Between Your AI Agent and Your Filesystem

Every AI coding agent you run has the same permissions you do. Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider. They can read your SSH keys, write to your shell config, and run any command your user account can. We accept this because the alternative is setting up Docker containers and dealing with volume mounts and broken toolchains every time we want an agent to help with a project. That trade-off has always felt wrong to me. Not because I think my AI agent is malicious, but because I know it executes code from dependencies I haven't read, runs shell commands it hallucinated, and sometimes rms things it shouldn't. The blast radius of a mistake is my entire home directory. I went looking for something between "full trust" and "Docker wrapper," and I found a project named after the barrier between humanity and rogue AIs in Cyberpunk 2077. What Is greywall? greywall is a container-free sandbox for AI coding agents. It uses kernel-level enforcement on Linux (bubblewrap, seccomp, Landlock, eBPF) and Se